In a path breaking surgery, surgeons have used a 10 year old boy’s stem cells to rebuild his windpipe, giving him a new lease of life. The boy was born with a…
Ways To Trigger Suicidal Self-Poisoning Of TB Discovered: Paves Way For Development Of Newer Antibiotics
In a breakthrough discovery, scientists have found ways to trigger self suicide in TB bacteria, paving a way for the discovery of newer antibiotic treatments available to combat the deadly disease. The…
Viagra Treats Infertility: Gives Woman a Baby After Treatment
New mum Kerry Horan’s happiness knew no bounds after she became a mother following an infertility treatment with viagra. Breaking new ground, medics offered Kerry a Viagra treatment for nine days that…
Image Analysis targets NHS
Image Analysis, the company that specialises in developing computer-aided algorithms for MRI data analysis, is calling on the NHS to adopt its technology, which is widely used in the rest of Europe….
Zocor Causes Muscle Injury: FDA
In a recent update, The Food and Drug Administration issued a health warning on the risks of muscle injury with the usage of high doses of widely prescribed statin, Zocor. The agency…
Women…Be aware !
Professional careers… Raising children… Household chores and so many more ………between all this women are suffering too much stress with so little time to look after their health. But now with the…
The use of stem cells in saving teeth for the future
Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiating into a diverse range of…
epSOS project to be extended
Smart Open Services for European Patients, which aims to enable a summary of a patient’s electronic medical record to be shared across European country borders, is likely to be extended. The €23m…
CSC wins Danish adverse incidents deal
CSC has signed a major contract with the Danish National Board of Health to provide a national adverse incident system to allow patients and professionals to report adverse events encountered across the…
ONC shall survey consumers on privacy of personal clinical data
The Office of the National Coordinator(ONC), United States- for Health IT plans to conduct a nationwide survey of public opinion about electronic health information exchange and the privacy and security of personal…
Cognex Dataman Barcode Readers Deliver Best-in-Class Performance
Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) has introduced two new 1D barcode readers to its DataMan® line of industrial ID readers. The DataMan 100 QL and DataMan 200 QL fixed mount readers offer best-in-class 1D…
TriZetto group and 3M Health Information Systems announce aggreement
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M’s ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage…
Hospitals Provide EHR as a Service for Small Physician Groups
Some large-scale hospitals and health care systems are stepping into new roles as software providers to help small physician practices and community clinics tap into their electronic health record systems, HealthLeaders Magazine…
NIST releases new Health IT test method
GAITHERSBURG, MD – The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first of four installments of a new health IT test method and related software. NIST and the Department…
Physicians EMR solution by DELL
Together, Dell and participating hospitals are eliminating long-standing barriers to EMR adoption for small and medium medical practices: cost, complexity and interoperability. Dell’s Affiliated Physician EMR Solution lets hospitals sponsor their affiliated…