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The Tech Awards 2010: Nokia Health Award

Technology is in the process of revolutionizing health care, from improving the quality of life for those with disabilities to eradicating deadly diseases. Biotechnology discoveries, enhanced imaging, and incredible new surgical procedures [+]

What are these pills anyway?

The National Institute of Health has put together a Beta website http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/ to help patients identify the drugs in the cabinet. The website is Flash driven and is very easy to use.  Simply click the characteristics [+]

Shortlist announced for the UKTI Business Innovation Awards 2010

The prestigious Business Innovation Awards 2010, which showcases the very best of UK innovation in science and technology, has announced the nine companies shortlisted for its three award categories – emerging &nano technology, energy & environment, and digital connected [+]

Technology Innovations for Under-Served and Under-Privileged Patients

There is an ever increasing disease-burden gap between developing and developed countries. Consequently, people involved in health care industry are thinking of ways to develop and implement effective healthcare technologies to [+]

Medical Research in China

The industry of medical research in China includes many facets. The participants range from large establishments (concerned with basic research), military hospitals undertaking applied research and development and pharmaceutical companies making [+]

Research for the Future of Health Design

Thoughtful, intelligent and sometimes surprisingly simple evidence-based design is a source of growing attention when it comes to health innovation. A panel of designers and planners speaks about what dilemmas they face [+]

Future of Healthcare Innovation keynote by Jaap Suermondt

Highlights from HP Labs' Jaap Suermondt's keynote at the Future of Health Innovation conference. For more, please see the HP Data Central blog, Nov. 2010. [+]

DNA Electronics announces grants of key international patents

London, United Kingdom, November 10 2010 – DNA Electronics Ltd, a fabless provider of semiconductor solutions for real-time DNA and RNA detection, announced today the company has been awarded three key patents for semiconductor-based nucleotide detection. These latest patent [+]

Canadian Health Innovation Award – Healthy Living with Dr. Meg Jordan

Dr. Meg Jordan talks about the Health Council of Canada's Health Innovation Award. [+]

Technologies to make Medications safer for your patient

Medicinal technologies have a big hand in the treatment and recovery of a patient. From immediate pain relief to long term cure, medicines can help an individual achieve sound health. As much [+]

DNA Electronics Partners with Roche to Develop new DNA sequencer

DNA Electronics, a fabless semiconductor provider of solutions for real-time DNA and RNA analysis, announced today that it has entered a partnership with 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company. The collaboration will focus on the development of a [+]

Social Media, Revolutionizing Healthcare Industry in the 21st century

Social media is revolutionizing the way people approach health care.  Social media tools are finally making head-way into the realm of medical care. Compared to five years ago, it is now much [+]

Quest Diagnostics Launches Its First Mobile Application

Quest Diagnostics launched its first mobile app for Blackberry and iPhone, which allows users to receive their Quest Diagnostics lab results and manage their personal health information. With the release of this app, Quest Diagnostics is [+]

Mobile Health Expo Selects Voalté as 2010 Award Winner

Mobile Health Expo, an event focusing on the convergence of mobile technology and healthcare across the entire mobile health ecosystem, has named Voalté the Mobile Health Expo 2010 Award winner in the [+]

Robot Assist May Improve Myomectomy

Removing myomas using a robot-assisted laparoscopic approach may have some advantages over a conventional laparoscopic or open removal, a retrospective study showed From MedPageToday:  Full Story [+]

Technologies of Brain Mapping

Introduction to Brain Mapping If you are into neuro-feedback therapy or know how it helps solve health issues related to brain function, then you may be interested in how this technology works and [+]

Painless Laser Tissue Analysis Could Replace X-Rays Within Five Years

From the brains of Popular Science and MIT: MIT is exploring the use of Raman spectroscopy to test diabetics' blood for glucose levels without drawing any blood. Other non-invasive diagnostic tools are employing the [+]

Future technology, can you innovate it for health care?

A picture of future technologies. I can see many of these be adopted to use in Health Information Technology and general E-Health. [+]

MIT team shows how vital signs can be monitored visually using a cheap camera

With Compliments to Tom Stitt ( @tstitt ) for this post: Ming-Zher Poh, a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, has made a health monitoring system that uses low cost cameras to measure [+]

Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Treatment?

Breast cancer effects millions of women.  New therapies could shorten treatments to a single visit.  These type of prevention and detection technologies are growing in use throughout the world. [+]

Growing back human legs or arms just like a lizard isn’t as Sci-Fi anymore

Movies and TV shows are always playing in this space.  They have some futuristic lab that grows "human parts" and we all gasp and think of the amazing future that this type of technology could [+]

Medical technology allows deaf girl to hear

Modern technology available in the Tampa Bay area is giving those born deaf the gift of sound. We have an update on a young Pinellas County girl we have been following for over [+]

New and Innovative Devices In Today’s Emergency Rooms

In emergency rooms, time is of great essence, as the sooner the problem is detected, the sooner the patient gets the treatment. Over the years, many innovations and new technologies have helped personnel working in [+]

Health Connections: Autism Circle of Friends

Autism, like cancer, sucks. Several concerned parents along with their public school system and the Hormel Foundation have come up with a creative way to combat Autism through a specially tailored camp. [+]

Beyond Traditional Borders

BTB is the undergraduate component Rice 360: Institute for Global Health Technologies. This video describes how BTB is training the next generation of leaders in global health. Global poverty and global health needs are [+]
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