Iowa Lawmakers Should Update Abortion Laws To Accommodate Use Of Telemedicine, Editorial Says
By using telemedicine to dispense abortion medication, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland is applying the technology "as it was intended: to expand access to legal health services in rural Iowa," the Des Moines Register states in an editorial...
Blogs Comment On Reproductive Health Legislation, Research, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Electronic Mnemonics and the Pill," Laura Lloyd, National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's "Pregnant Pause": Although oral contraceptives are the most popular birth control method among U.S. teens and young adults, the pill "tends to be less effective than it could be thanks to user error," Lloyd writes...
Blogs Comment On Reproductive Health Legislation, Research, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Electronic Mnemonics and the Pill," Laura Lloyd, National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's "Pregnant Pause": Although oral contraceptives are the most popular birth control method among U.S. teens and young adults, the pill "tends to be less effective than it could be thanks to user error," Lloyd writes...
Hospitals Hire To Keep Up With Growing Diversity, Tech Challenges
"As more immigrants crowd its waiting rooms, Elmhurst Hospital is joining a growing number of hospitals in New York and across the country that are going beyond hiring interpreters and offering translated paperwork and are adopting practices intended to improve care for an increasingly diverse patient population," The New York Times reports...
Sexual Health, Computer-Based Approaches Increase Knowledge
Interactive computer packages are effective in improving knowledge about sexual health, according to a new study by Cochrane researchers. Computer-based approaches could help to tackle problems such as sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy...
The Optimal Set-Up For Obtaining The Best Breast Scan Image With Minimal Radiation Dose To The Patient
A mathematical tool known as a Monte Carlo analysis could help improve the way X-rays are used for mammography and reduce the number of breast cancers missed by the technique as well as avoiding false positives, according to research published this month in the International Journal of Low Radiation...
Future Of Rural Healthcare Comes Under The Microscope At Highland Conference, Scotland
The innovative use of modern technology to promote health and prevent illness is the subject of a national conference being held in Inverness next month. Doctors, researchers, technical experts and business people will share their expertise at the P4 Digital Healthcare Convention, organised by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), on Friday, October 1, at the city's Eden Court Theatre...
Freerice 2.0: Feeding Minds While Feeding The Hungry
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sociologist Ms LucÃa 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
