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Freerice 2.0: Feeding Minds While Feeding The Hungry published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Does the word arundinaceous mean long and thin or someone who talks too much? Is an aleconner a beer-taster or a kind of bird? Does scunner mean deep dislike or something you'd find on a boat? Questions like these have stumped millions of people across the globe since 2007, when Freerice.com - the world's only vocabulary game that feeds the hungry - took the web by storm...
New Online Training For CPR In General Practice, Australia published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
GPs have indicated that they want more educational support in regards to managing cardiorespiratory resuscitation (CPR) in general practice, which has prompted the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) to develop two new online learning activities with a focus on CPR...
Scientists Decode Words From Brain Signals published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain...
Hearing-Aid.com Launches Today; Provides Tips, Tools For Hearing Loss published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Hearing loss affects millions of Americans, but finding out information about hearing loss and hearing help has been a challenge - until now. Hearing-Aid.com is a new resource designed to provide people with hearing loss, and those that love them, with all of the resources they need to attack hearing loss head-on...
Microrobots Could Be Used For Search And Rescue, Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, and other places too perilous for people...
Human Unconscious Is Transferred To Virtual Characters published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Virtual characters can behave according to actions carried out unconsciously by humans. Researchers at the University of Barcelona have created a system which measures human physiological parameters, such as respiration or heart rate, and introduces them into computer designed characters in real time...
PhD Thesis Researches Relationship Of Youth Today With The New Technologies published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Sociologist Ms LucĂa Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Considering that young people nowadays are natives of the so-called digital culture, Ms Merino explored their relationship with the new technologies and how they learn and socialise through them...
New Prediction Tool For Oil Spill Spread, Other Contaminants published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico...
NSF-Funded Study Of Creative Collaborations To Focus On Networks Of WoW Gamers, Etsy Crafters published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked collaborations could benefit scientists, corporations and the very IT designers who facilitated the success of the two online communities...
Cincinnati, Detroit Selected As Final Health IT Pilot Communities Under Innovative HHS Recovery Act Beacon Program published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using health information technology to help tackle leading health problems in communities across the country...
Banner Health Converts 23-Hospital System To Masimo Rainbow SET Technology published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Banner Health and Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) jointly announce Banner Health's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow® SET technology. The system-wide conversion ensures that patients visiting any Banner Health hospital will be cared for using the most technologically and clinically-advanced oximetry and noninvasive patient monitoring solutions available...
Top Expert On Male Reproductive Health Launches New Website To Help Men Understand And Overcome Fertility And Sexual Health Issues published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
The Turek Clinic, founded by men's reproductive health pioneer, Paul Turek, MD, unveiled a new website dedicated to educating men on sexual health and male fertility problems. The site is designed to be an educational tool on topics ranging from vasectomy and reversal to sperm retrieval and testicular mapping, a minimally invasive procedure pioneered by Dr...
Webmedx Strengthens Quality Program And Improves Patient Safety In Compliance With New Industry Standards For Clinical Documentation published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Webmedx, the third largest medical transcription service provider in the U.S. and a premier supplier of speech recognition and quality analytics technology, reinforced their commitment to quality and patient safety by announcing important changes to their quality assurance processes and procedures for transcribed and speech-generated reports...
MIT Researcher Finds That Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly...
New Online Health Test Helps Hispanics Cut Risk Of Heart Disease, Stroke published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
As families return to the frenzied back-to-school pace, the American Heart Association is urging Hispanics to make time for the most important test they can take: a simple online health assessment to help them avoid heart disease and stroke...
American Lung Association Supports Individuals Dealing With Lung Disease Through Online Caregiving Coordination Service published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The American Lung Association is offering a free-of-charge, online caregiving coordination service called "My Fighting for Air Community" to support individuals affected by acute and chronic lung diseases...
Breast Cancer Prognosis Prediction Tool: Microsoft Excel-Based Algorithm published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research will enable researchers to quickly generate valuable gene signatures without specialized software or extensive bioinformatics training...
Low Installation Rates In Retail Pharmacies Across Europe Increase The Growth Potential Of The Pharmacy Automation Systems Market published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The pharmacy automation systems market in Europe is experiencing a tremendous growth spurt. Until recently, most pharmacies have been either without automation or have employed very basic automation systems...
Open House At Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center Introduces Elekta Synergy® To Community published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center, the area's only American College of Radiology-accredited radiation oncology center, introduces the Elekta Synergy system. The new technology will be showcased at the center's Open House on Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center (GCCTC) is located at 2100 State Avenue in Panama City. Radiation oncologists Dr. D.B...
Varian Medical Systems Establishes Radiotherapy Training Center In Mumbai, India published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), a world leader in radiotherapy equipment and software, has established its first education center in India to train medical physicists and technologists working on the company's advanced cancer treatment systems...
DentalXChange Supports DentalOne Partners, Inc., By Delivering A Company-Wide Electronic Eligibility Solution published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
EDI Health Group, Inc., (EHG), parent company of DentalXChange, a provider of enhanced connectivity, streamlined technology and transaction solutions for patients, payers and providers in the dental industry, has been selected by DentalOne Partners, Inc...
Dental Surgery At The Click Of A Mouse, New E-learning Platform For Students Of Dentistry At Mainz University Medical Center published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The new e-learning platform ILKUM (an acronym for "Interaktiver Lernzielkatalog der Universitätsmedizin Mainz" or interactive catalogue of learning objectives of Mainz University Medical Center) is a sign of things to come: Students of dentistry in 2010 now only need internet access to be able to download case studies with film and image material showing disease patterns and s...
Microsoft Excel-based Algorithm Predicts Cancer Prognosis published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research will enable researchers to quickly generate valuable gene signatures without specialized software or extensive bioinformatics training...
Group Health Study Reveals That People Want To Be Asked Before Sharing Genetic Data published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
People want to be informed and asked for consent before deciding whether to let researchers share their genetic information in a federal database. This is according to a team of investigators at Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington (UW). The team's report, called "Glad You Asked," is in the September 2010 Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics...
Health Informatics Partnership Is Launched To Expand Informatics Work Force, Improve Health Globally published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics...
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