News: Science

• Philippines urged to adopt int’l telehealth standards
  Tom Noda
  May 08 2009

  With the current population increase outgrowing the local healthcare resources, lawmakers and doctors in the Philippines are calling for the immediate adoption of international telehealth standards ...

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• Web site offline as police, FBI investigate extortion bid
  Jaikumar Vijayan
  May 07 2009

  A week after a hacker claimed to have broken into a patient database and encrypted millions of prescription records at a Virginia health agency, its Web site remains offline except for a static Web ...

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• MIT: Nanotech targets and kills cancerous tumors
  Sharon Gaudin
  May 07 2009

  Scientists have long known that heat is an effective weapon against cancerous tumors. The problem, though, has been how to heat the tumors to the point that it kills them without damaging ...

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• GE to spend $6 billion on health tech initiative
  Grant Gross
  May 07 2009

  General Electric will spend US$6 billion over the next six years in an effort to improve health-care quality and drive down costs to consumers, the company announced Thursday. The company will spend ...

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• Partnership extends Microsoft HealthVault to Canada
  Elizabeth Montalbano
  May 07 2009

  Microsoft has expanded its HealthVault e-health service to Canada through a partnership with Telus, marking the first time HealthVault will be available outside the U.S. Telus, a telecommunications ...

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• 'Hacker' threatens to expose health data, demands $10M
  Jaikumar Vijayan
  May 06 2009

  Days after a hacker claimed to have broken into a database and encrypted millions of prescription records at Virginia's Department of Health Professions, it remains unclear what ...

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• Wireless IT in Health Care: The Time Is Now?
  Matt Hamblen
  May 04 2009

  After years of talk about wireless technologies' potential for widespread use in medical applications, they appear to be ready for a takeoff in adoption within health care organizations. And some ...

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• If swine flu reaches Level 6, firms may need to appoint pandemic coordinator
  Lucas Mearian
  Apr 30 2009

  If the World Health Organization (WHO) raises the pandemic threat alert to Level 6 -- it's already just one notch below that at Level 5 -- companies now scrambling to figure out business continuity ...

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• Home health-care devices help patients stay out of the hospital
  James Niccolai
  Apr 30 2009

  How it works: Various technologies enable patients to exchange health information with caregivers. Patients use the Intel Health Guide system to video conference with health-care professionals and ...

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• NHS patient record system 'losing waiting lists'
  Leo King
  Apr 28 2009

  The multibillion pound patient record system at NHS hospitals is losing waiting lists. Thousands of patient details have recently been discovered on "lost" waiting lists in London hospitals, ...

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