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Hospitals, medical clinics, doctor's offices and other health care organizations are facing government-mandated deadlines in a host of areas such as electronic medical records, clinical systems and new privacy and medical-coding standards. IT is expected to reap some of the benefits of this health care growth spurt. Evidence from a ...

London, March 21:  Forget crash diets and obsessive calorie counting. A new study shows that it takes only slight changes to your eating habits to improve your long term health. Cut back on the number of times you shake the salt cellar or grind your salt mill. A healthy adult intake ...

London, March 20 : Japanese scientists have developed a genetically modified mosquito that vaccinates as it bites and could help prevent the spread of malaria. The research team has created an insect producing a natural vaccine protein in its saliva, which is injected into the bloodstream when it bites. The “prototype” mosquito ...

London, March 20 :Oxford scientists have developed a gel that may soon heal the misery of cleft palates in kids. Although they can be corrected through surgery, those most severely affected can suffer problems with their speech and appearance for years to come. According to researcher David Bucknall, the gel is “significantly ...

Hyderabad, March :India’s largest private healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals plans to set up 32 new hospitals in the country over the next two years. While 11 new hospitals will come up in the next fiscal year, 20 more centres will open in 2011-12, Apollo chairman Prathap C. Reddy told reporters here ...

Washington, March 20 :Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking but female smokers do, a new study suggests. In a study of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, researchers found that those with past alcohol-use disorders ...

U.S. President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party allies in Congress are making one last push for health care reform after more than a year of debate. Republicans and grass roots conservative activists are making their own last ditch attempt to block the health care bill, and the passionate battle ...

The FCC has presented its National Broadband Plan, which advocates bringing affordable broadband access to more Americans, and also suggests that more broadband can help boost health care IT in the United States. Specifically, the FCC is claiming that increased broadband to physicians and hospitals will help transmit increasingly larger ...

(CNS): Sleep is a basic human need, much like eating and drinking. It is crucial for our overall health and well being. Research shows that we spend up to a third of our lives sleeping. Good quality and restorative sleep is essential for day-to-day functioning. Studies suggest ...

-- Hey, musicians. Take the Future of Music Coalition's "Taking the Pulse" survey about health care and help "assess the level of health insurance among working musicians," according to the FMC. You have until April 1, so get on it. -- ...

Canadian researchers have decoded opium poppy which will lead to cheaper and mass production of the current costly pain killers. Currently, the morphine is the most used painkiller around the world. Researchers at Canada’s University of Calgary revealed Sunday that they have decoded the unique genes in the opium poppy that ...

Mumbai, March 15 : Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Friday said it will launch anti-diabetic drug Actos in the US by 2012. Ranbaxy, majority owned by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo, said it has settled litigation with the country’s Takeda Pharmaceutical over a generic equivalent version of the medicine and received a non-exclusive royalty ...

Are you exhausted, annoyed, and ready to throw in the towel on something that once made you leap out of bed with joy every morning? I know that feeling well. It’s one I suffered from ...

Singapore healthcare companies Parkway Holdings (P27.SG) and Raffles Medical (R01.SG) should post strong results for the March quarter thanks to improving fundamentals says Credit Suisse according to Dow Jones Newswires. It is maintaining its “overweight” sector call and tipping companies to benefit from increased inpatient admissions, rise in revenue ...

An improving economy and the meaningful use requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are likely to spur medical industry spending in 2010. - The concept of meaningful use quot;appears to be spurring an increase in health care information technology (IT) spending along with a brightening economy, ...

The new solutions allow health care companies to address key processes such as care coordination and patient flow, and helps ensure their efficient operation. - Avaya introduced this week a new set of unified communications designed to improve the quality of patient care while increasing ROI and savings. ...

Barack Obama unveils his final strategy for pushing health reform in America“EVERYTHING there is to say about health care has been said and just about everyone has said it…now is the time to make a decision.” So declared President Barack Obama on March 3rd to an audience of doctors and ...

The economy, health care and Social Security are all factors at play in older workers' decisions to keep working. However, it's not all about money and health. Older workers are also concerned about malaise and usefulness while some simply love their workplace environment. - Workers 60 and ...

Dell and the American Medical Association are teaming up to create a platform designed to make it easier for physicians and other health care providers to adopt and deploy IT that will make them more efficient and help drive down costs. The platform is being beta tested and will be ...

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse's keynote address at the annual HIMSS conference emphasizes the health care advances that high-speed wireless connectivity such as Sprint's 4G network with Clearwire can make possible. - Mobile solutions powered by high-speed networks will continue to help the health care industry improve the ...