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Surgery in the US, watched in PakistanThe Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has recently made successful inroads in the […]

Should you trust health advice from internet forums?

Health information on the internet used to be shaped by doctors. Now it’s being shaped by patients. And it’s patients, not doctors, who are making the real progress in providing health information that delivers what people really want to know. But how do you know if this information and advice is trustworthy, and worth heeding?

“Today, corporate hospitals also recognise the utility of research” : Dr. Upendra Kaul, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre

Fortis Healthcare announced its plan to focus on its academics and research programme with the objective of fostering and facilitating academics and clinical research enterprise across Fortis network of hospitals.

Satellite monitoring can predict cholera outbreaks in India

Scientists have found that cholera outbreaks can be predicted using satellite monitoring of marine environments, especially in India and Bangladesh where such epidemics occur regularly.

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Now, cancer diagnosis in 15 minutes Diagnosis of life-threatening diseases such as cancer may become a matter of minutes as […]

New telemedicine service to help in the care of sick babies

Tiny Tom is the latest development of the tele-paediatric service, a major research project run by The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH), a research centre based in the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.

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[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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Smart fabrics for health to be piloted by EU team

A cluster of EU research projects, collectively known as the SFIT Group are piloting garments which can measure a wearer’s body temperature or trace their heart activity.

Developing nations will lobby for research funds for TB, malaria

India and other developing countries are set to lobby hard for funding mechanisms to develop medicines,
mostly aimed at neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, at a forum set up by the World Health Organization or WHO. Developed countries have long maintained that patents are sufficient incentive for innovation.

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[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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