Medicine

StopAdvisor website uses evidence-based principles to help smokers quit

04.06.2012 | [London, UK/ Medicine] - StopAdvisor is a web-based smoking-cessation program that takes smokers from preparation for the target quit-smoking date to the quit date itself. It achieves this by offering expert advice through a combination ...

EURECA project will improve links between healthcare records and clinical research

01.06.2012 | [Eindhoven, Netherlands/ Medicine] - EURECA is a European project that aims to build software solutions to improve interoperability among healthcare data systems, such as clinical trials and electronic health record systems. Standing ...

Smart clothing monitors and transmits cardiac signs

22.05.2012 | [Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA/ Medicine] - An interdisciplinary team at the University of Arkansas has developed a smart textile platform that monitors vital signs of the wearer and transmits the data wirelessly to secure storage. The ...

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 ...

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