Medicine

Call for database to help prevent sudden heart attacks in sport

16.05.2012 | [London, UK/ Medicine] - Big gaps in basic knowledge about the numbers and causes of apparently inexplicable heart attacks among young sportsmen and women are seriously hampering our ability to prevent them, say sport and exercise medicine ...

Investment in technologies for personalised healthcare saves money and lives

07.05.2012 | [Brussels, Belgium/ Medicine] - Research on the outcome of investment in preventative measures and technologies that enable personalised healthcare has shown that it maintains the same level or improves patients′ health, but reduces ...

New Health and Social Care Act will hinder analysis of national health needs

03.05.2012 | [London, UK/ Medicine] - The Health and Social Care Act 2012 will have severe implications for collecting and monitoring data about the health needs of the population in England, warn experts in the BMJ. Professor Allyson Pollock, Professor ...

Text message reminders help patients keep to treatment programmes

27.04.2012 | [Utrecht, The Netherlands / Medicine] - A review of research has found that text message prompts can help patients living with long-term conditions stick to their treatment programmes. The study was conducted because it is common for people ...

International computer grid provides computational resources for diagnosing and studying brain diseases

23.04.2012 | [Brescia, Italy/ Medicine] - The diagnosis of and research on Alzheimer′s and related brain diseases has been greatly speeded up by an EU-funded computing infrastructure of networked research labs, academia and industries. This network ...

Primary care record mining aids Helicobacter Eradication Aspirin Trial

20.04.2012 | [Nottingham, UK / Medicine] - A major clinical trial to investigate whether eliminating a common stomach bug could help make taking aspirin safer is using a software tool to extract patient data from GP systems. It will save time and money ...

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