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New Program Sends Text Messages To Promote Maternal, Infant Health
The White House on Thursday announced a new health education program that will deliver pregnancy advice to women via text messages, the Los Angeles Times' "Technology" reports (Guynn, "Technology," Los Angeles Times, 2/4)... ...more		 08 Feb 2010
Ohio Hospitals Advertise ER Wait Times On Billboards, Internet
Akron General Health System, a hospital system in Ohio, "recently began advertising up-to-the-minute wait times for its emergency rooms on billboards throughout town," the Akron Beacon Journal reports... ...more		 08 Feb 2010
Special Health Affairs Edition On e-Health In The Developing World
Five articles, whose lead or senior authors are nationally known informatics leaders and members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), appear in the Feb. 2010 issue of Health Affairs and provide a glimpse into the future of health care delivery in an increasingly information-driven era of health care in the developing world... ...more		 08 Feb 2010
Frank Semcer Is First To Be Honored With Stevens' Award For Innovation And Entrepreneurship
At Micro Stamping headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey, it is largely what is not visible that gives the metal-forming company its edge in the highly competitive world of precision component manufacturing. Chairman Frank Semcer, Sr... ...more		 08 Feb 2010
Health Stories By Experts More Credible Than Blogs
Health information written by a doctor is rated as more credible when it appears on a Web site than in a blog or a homepage, according to a study of college students. The findings highlight the relative importance of different online sources to people who seek health information on the Internet... ...more		 08 Feb 2010
Fruit And Vegetable Consumption Improved By Online Programs
Online programs that provide information and tips about fruits and vegetables may be the key to getting more Americans to eat healthier, say researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. Researchers found that when given access to an online program about fruits and vegetables, participants increased their daily fruit and vegetable intake by more than two servings... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Tracking The Spread Of Disease, Malware And Power Outages
An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations and malware across wireless computer networks, as well as how a blackout occurring on one major power grid can cause a cascade of additional neighboring networks to fail. Funded by the U.S... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Small World Explored By Big Book: Stuart Lindsay's Guide To Nanoscience
Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world a million times smaller than a single grain of sand... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
AORN Journal Introduces New Editorial Features And Enhanced Layout
Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce that the AORN Journal, the official journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), has expanded its editorial content and redesigned the layout of its print format... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Patient Interest In Video Recording Of Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy is operator-dependent and substantial numbers of pre-cancerous polyps are missed during colonoscopy. Colonoscopies are often poorly documented, with only a few still photographs taken of anatomic landmarks and abnormal findings... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
The American Hospital Association Awards Its Endorsement To Design Clinicals' MedsTracker(R) For Medication Reconciliation
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced it has exclusively endorsed Design Clinicals' MedsTracker® for medication reconciliation management. MedsTracker medication reconciliation software automates medication management and improves the medication reconciliation workflow for hospital and clinic physicians and nursing staff. AHA Solutions, Inc... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Shina Systems Receives U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance For Its 3Di Cloud-based Medical Imaging Advanced (3D/4D) Visualization Solution
Shina Systems announces U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its 3Di medical imaging advanced (3D/4D) visualization software that downloads over the Internet and provides a full suite of image processing and clinical analysis applications on any PC... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
Restored Hearing Making Sound Success
In 2009 a student research project investigating a low frequency therapy for temporary tinnitus was joint runner-up in the 2009 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, held in Dublin, Ireland. The student research project which has now evolved into a web-based company, Restored Hearing was one of the companies which showcased recently at the 2010 exhibition... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
Developing A Cyberinfrastructure For Comparative Effectiveness In Cancer Research
Nearly four decades after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Cancer," the disease still claims the lives of 560,000 Americans every year, despite an annual expenditure of $5 billion by the U.S. government on research to battle it... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
Novel Therapies Could Improve Potency Of Existing AIDS Treatments, Help To Combat Drug-Resistant Virus Strains
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
News From The US Department Of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2010
HEALTH CARE - Maximizing mammography . . . . . . Mammograms could conceivably save more lives with a technology being developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Chicago... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
Computer Simulation Tool Supplements Residents' Training In Cataract Surgery
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Cataract Surgery Trainer, a virtual training tool which helps to train physicians to perform cataract surgery, has been shown to enhance teaching in cataract surgery when compared to traditional teaching methods... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
New State-Of-The-Art Technology To Accelerate Stem Cell Research At UC Riverside
Stem cell research at the University of California, Riverside is about to gather speed thanks to the establishment of a new Stem Cell Core Facility (SCCF) - a shared facility providing infrastructure, equipment, and trained personnel for doing stem cell research that ordinarily would not be available in most laboratories... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
New Website To Offer Help, Hope, And A Home For Individuals Affected By Mental Illness
Step Up on Second announces the launch of its newly enhanced Web 2.0 site. Step Up on Second is a California non-profit organization providing support services for adults affected by severe and persistent mental illness, and young adults experiencing the initial symptoms of a mental illness and their families... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
Distance Education For Parents Of Children With Autism Found Effective
Through the use of instructional DVDs, parents of children with autism can learn how to teach their child to communicate and improve their behavior, according to research published in the January 2010 issue of The Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions (published by the Hammill Institute on Disabilities and SAGE)... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
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