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Talking Touchscreens And PatientsChicago IL (SPX) Jul 14, 2010 Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and clinicians at local health care centers enhance patient-centered care for patients with diverse language, literacy and computer skills. The easy-to-use touchscreens read questionnaires, provide patient education material and collect patient data. Each piece of text on the screen has sound attached to it, and users record answers by ... read more |
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San Diego (UPI) Jun 22, 2010 U.S. medical investigators say a drug under development by Pfizer Inc. is showing promising results in reducing lung cancer tumors during clinical trials. Researchers at the University of California-San Diego's Moores Cancer Center said the drug, crizotinib, may be of benefit to patients with a specific kind of lung cancer. "The results of the first two trials have been very enco ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) June 20, 2010Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by ar ... more  
Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) June 21, 2010Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones at provincial council offices in southern Iraq on Monday, wounding five police amid growing rage over power rationing in the summer heat, a police official said. The police, who included a lieutenant colonel, were all admitted to hospital after the frenzied protest outside the Dhi Qar provincial headquarters in the city of Nasiriyah, the official sa ... more |
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New Research Into The Deep Ocean Floor Yields Promising Results For MicrobiologistsKnoxville TN (SPX) Jun 17, 2010 Research by a small group of microbiologists is revealing how marine microbes live in a mysterious area of the Earth: the realm just beneath the deep ocean floor. The ocean crust may be the largest biological reservoir on our planet. Beth Orcutt, a post-doctoral fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of Southern California, presented her new findings about this little researched realm at Goldschmidt 2010, an annual conference sponsored by a number of international geochemical so ... read more |
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