New technology available locally may be more effective at screening for breast cancer in younger women.
Since September, Laughlin Memorial Hospital has been offering digital mammography at its Center for Women’s Health.
Dr. Art Adams, one of three radiologists affiliated with the Laughlin Center for Women’s Health, said he is pleased that the hospital has invested in this state-of-the-art technology for its patients.
Dr. Adams and his colleagues Read the rest of this entry »

People who hoped, or worried, that
might be the “Health Care President” thought again when the ailing economy altered his agenda.
But it turns out the $787 billion economic-stimulus program that Obama is expected to sign today is a health-care bill after all.
“This is probably the most momentous funding initiative that has hit the health-care industry since the passage of Medicare in 1965. And it will have a bigger, quicker impact,” says Charlie Read the rest of this entry »

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1: Barley History: Relationship of Man and Barley Through the
Ages.
Chapter 2: Barley Taxonomy, Morphology and Anatomy.
Chapter 3: Barley Biotechnology: Breeding and Transgenics.
Chapter 4: Barley Genetics and Nutrient Composition.
Chapter 5: Barley Processing: Methods and Product Composition.
Chapter 6: Evaluation of Food Product Quality.
Chapter 7: Barley Food Product Research and Development.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Hospitals in Texas that used computers to keep track of patient records and manage care had lower rates of deaths, complications and costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday, offering a strong argument for hospitals to go “paperless.”
They said patients treated in hospitals that ranked highest in use of health information technology to manage patient records and physician notes were 15 percent less likely to die compared with patients Read the rest of this entry »

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, October 19, 2008
jroberson@dallasnews.com
North Texas hasn’t been a major player on the national medical research and biotechnology scene – but that may be about to change.
In the past month, UT Southwestern Medical Center has announced plans for a four-building, 13-acre biotech park. And Baylor Health Care System unveiled plans for a $350 million, 450,000-square-foot research and cancer treatment center, with Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to use new computer technology to simulate how some drugs in development are supposed to work, helping researchers and regulators spot safety and effectiveness issues before late-stage tests on humans are completed.
Entelos Inc., a Foster City, Calif., company that has developed the technology, said it will enable researchers to obtain computer-generated test results in a matter of days or weeks, compared Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the firms and companies that have invested in or partnered with
companies in the EMT Database include: Accuitive Ventures, Advanced
Technology Ventures, Aesculap, Affinity Capital Partners, Alta Partners,
Baird Venture Partners, Battelle Ventures, Bay City Capital, Boston
Scientific (BSX), Canaan Ventures, Conmed (CNMD), Covidien (COV), CR
Bard (BCR), Delphi Ventures, Domain Associates, Edwards Lifesciences Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Associated Press) – The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will spend as much as $2.5 billion to upgrade the technology it uses to track the safety of food, drugs and other products.
The announcement comes after a year when the FDA has been criticized for its handling of a salmonella outbreak that implicated peppers and tomatoes. The ultimate source of the outbreak may never be known, regulators said, partly because of shortcomings Read the rest of this entry »

Abingdon, United Kingdom, 9th October 2008 – Toumaz Technology Limited, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions, today announces that Toumaz CEO Keith Errey will present key digital fitness applications of the Sensium™ system for intelligent wireless body monitoring at Club Industry 2008 (McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, October 15th – 18th 2008). The presentation will be made Read the rest of this entry »

CHICAGO, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Hospitals in Texas that used
computers to keep track of patient records and manage care had
lower rates of deaths, complications and costs, U.S.
researchers said on Monday, offering a strong argument for
hospitals to go “paperless.”
They said patients treated in hospitals that ranked highest
in use of health information technology to manage patient
records and physician notes were 15 percent less likely to die
compared Read the rest of this entry »