Checking the heart of the unborn baby usually involves a stethoscope. However, an inexpensive and accurate Bluetooth fetal heart rate monitoring system has now been developed by researchers in India for long-term home care. Details are reported in a fo…
iPhones and other smartphones can be a huge help to the visually impaired, but few vision doctors are recommending them to patients, according to a study co-authored by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine ophthalmologist. Researchers…
The creation of a social media videoconferencing platform geared towards healthcare might pave the way for enhanced use of social media in the world of healthcare according to a study published this month in the International Journal of Electronic Fina…
Innovators around the world are using information technology to extend healthcare access to the rural poor, manage data, and improve doctor and patient communication, authors report in the WHO Bulletin In response to the considerable challenges in prov…
The May issue of The American Journal of Pathology reports that Dr. Derek Magee, and his team at the University of Leeds have developed a unique, easy-to-use system for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction and examination of tissues at microscopic res…
Our obsession with multiple forms of media is not necessarily all bad news, according to a new study by Kelvin Lui and Alan Wong from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Their work shows that those who frequently use different types of media at the sa…
Internet users in countries with greater socio-economic health are more likely to use Google to search for information about the future than about the past, according to a new study published online in Scientific Reports on 5 April. The researchers …
People who are excluded by others online, such as on Facebook, may feel just as bad as if they had been excluded in person, according to researchers at Penn State and Misericordia University. “If you’ve ever felt bad about being ‘ignored’ on Facebook y…
Maybe you’ve had a reoccurring sore throat or frequent headaches. Perhaps the pain in your leg won’t go away. In the past, you might have gone to a doctor’s office to diagnose symptoms. Today, people are more likely to go online to punch in their sympt…
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) have developed a computer application that allows georeferenced images that have been uploaded to social networks on the Internet to be recovered, located on maps and organized like a comic to …
