Lead exposure is known to have undesirable effects on the kidney both in adults as well as children. Despite the elimination of lead from gasoline and paint it was discovered that most…
Personalized medicine for breast cancer patients through multigene test
Personalized medicine is showing increasing popularity in the field of oncology. It can be defined as medical care that it is based on the biological characteristics of individual patients. By using genomics…
Research shows Elderly can benefit from owning pets
Researchers have found that pets are benficial for the elderly people. Contact with pets can lessen loneliness, can lessen depression, can bring a smile among the elderly. An elderly person paired with…
Novartis Pays Proteus $24M as Part of Sensor-Based Organ-Transplant Product Partnership
Proteus Biomedical will receive $24 million worth of cash and equity investments up front as part of an exclusive, worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop pharmaceuticals incorporating the company’s…
GCC healthcare spending: robust growth seen in 2010
The healthcare sector in the Arabian Gulf will continue to enjoy high growth in 2010, despite the global slowdown, led by government investment in infrastructure improvement, according to leading industry observers. “In…
Electronic Medical Records-Helps you Monitor Important Indices
Though the implementation of a proper Electronic Medical Records system may be unaffordable for a small clinic most clinics use some form of computerized patient records. Detailed analysis of the data from…
TV addiction can be more deadly than expected
A recent study conducted by a group of Australian researchers puts people who spend prolonged hours sitting before their TV sets on high alert.The message from them is that every hour spent…
Can turmeric Stop Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Arthritis?
for thousands of years, turmeric has been an important part of food and tradition in East. Valued for its medicinal properties and warm, peppery flavor, this yellow-orange spice has more recently earned…
Painkillers Deadlier than Cocaine, Heroin, and the Swine Flu
12th January 2010 Experts have shown their concern the addiction to prescription painkillers which kill thousands of Americans a year has become a largely unrecognized epidemic. The prescription drugs cause most of…
Healthcare IT- the fastest growing sector of healthcare innovation
Healthcare IT- the fastest growing sector of healthcare innovation • Healthcare IT is a $100 billion global business, comparable in scale to a Latin american economy, and is predicted to grow at…
Modern HIS-Must Have’s
Hospital Information System (HIS) has been defined in the literature as a set of interrelated components working together to gather, retrieve, process, store and disseminate information to support the activities of health…
Athens implementing Eclipsys PeakPractice Solutions to connect patients and physicians
ATHENS, GA – Athens Regional Medical Centre is Northeast Georgia’s largest health care services, committed to excellence and dedicated to improving the health, wellness and quality of life. At this point, the…
California Providence medical centre primed to modernize HealthcareIT with Verizon grant
Mission Hills, CA – Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is the foremost 254 bed hospital, that serves both the North San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys in California. Providence Holy Cross Medical…
Biobanking:A treasure for biomedical scientists
The concept of biobanking has become more important than ever considering the fast pace advancements in the field of genomics.Genomics as we are aware involves intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of…
Aliskiren , A new era for hypertension management ?!!!
Hypertension-otherwise known as the silent killer-is one of the most confusing diseases for researchers. Although many of the risk factors for its etiology are known and researchers have reached several treatments for…