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Secure text messaging for health data
Wireless location-based services (LBS) provider SquareLoop has introduced a text messaging system to enable secure transmission of health data over public wireless networks. The text messaging system, which is a new feature on SquareLoop's Mobile Alert Network, complies with Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA) regulations governing encryption of patients' electronic records and provides an application for secure mobile-originated text messages, giving the health care industry a unique data communications solution for its mobile workforce.
Life-saving data sent via Bluetooth
Mobile Gateway is now Bluetooth compatible with the Philips HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillator, allowing paramedics in the field to wirelessly send patient data to hospitals and caregivers without the use of mobile phones, modems or expensive wireless adaptors.
Postoperative Chemotherapy Does Not Improve Survival In Gastric Cancer Patients, Study Suggests
The use of combination chemotherapy following surgery did not improve survival in patients with gastric cancer, according to a randomized clinical trial.
Gene Silencing Therapies Could Have Harmful Side Effects, Research Suggests
Ambati, professor and vice chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and his colleagues have made a critical discovery that challenges the view that siRNA's therapeutic effects are imparted solely through RNA interference.
Europeans can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests
In a major advance patients and their families across Europe can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests. Over the last two years, EuroGentest, an EU-funded project, has collated in-dept data on the majority of the 1500 + laboratories involved in Member and associated EU States. This data is now freely searcheable as part of the new version of Orpha.net, the leading public portal for rare disease information launched today.
Siemens come up with Chip Advances Lift Ultrasound Market, Help Save Lives
Siemens AG dubbed the P10, a quick portable ultrasound machine, the smallest currently on the market. Eyal Herzog, director of the cardiac-care unit at St. Luke's , who is testing the P10 has said Such gadgets could become a vital tool in emergency medicine. "Assessment of the patient is much faster, easier" than using the heavy echocardiogram machine his team wheels from room to room and the image quality is nearly equivalent.
Taking Your Medications As Doctor Ordered – Help From The Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality
Free, online instructions for creating a pill card — an illustrated medication schedule — using only a personal or lap top computer and printer are now available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a part of the US. Department of Health and Human Services.
Exelixis: Genentech exercises option to develop cancer drug
Exelixis Inc has announced that Genentech Inc has exercised the option to further develop and market Exelixis' experimental cancer drug XL518, which is currently in an early stage trial.