GE Healthcare, the 17 billion healthcare division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has announced the launch of Vscan, a new, revolutionary, pocket-sized visualization tool developed to provide physicians with imaging capabilities...Read more

SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services has announced that Clinigene International Limited, a full-service Clinical Research Organization that partners with global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has deployed SAS Clinical Data Management - PheedIt solution... Read more

To help midsize industrial manufacturing companies streamline their IT implementations, Oracle and HP have launched the HP and Oracle Consulting Accelerate Solution... Read more

Pharmaceutical companies are seeking to collaborate with technology firms to develop new health IT tools that could improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs... Read more

A recent study shows that a new vaccine can prevent tuberculosis in people with HIV. Phase III trials of 2,000 HIV-infected people in Tanzania found that the mycobacterium vaccae (MV) vaccine reduced the rate of tuberculosis (TB) by 39 percent...Read more

A poor diet and sedentary lifestyle that frequently result in cardiovascular illness can also badly affect cerebral health. And the problem can be further complicated because the symptoms can be mistaken...Read more

Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN) and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) have come up with a finding that that the older generation of HI-antihistamines that are used as allergy medicines may be dangerous to people's health... Read more

Nine multi-specialty hospitals and medical colleges are going to be set up on vacant railway land in West Bengal. The railway minister Miss Mamta Banerjee has also ensured around nine second-level medical units with 100-bed hospitals to be established in West Bengal... Read more

Medical Care Technologies Inc. has begun to develop a secure Cellular-Based Tele-Health Suite™ that enables users to easily transmit vital signs data via the cellular network, to healthcare professionals utilizing the Medsuite™ application... Read more

Indian Medical Association has gone against the decision of the centre to introduce short term medical course in the undergraduate level in the country to meet the demand of rural doctors... Read more

Narayana Hrudayalaya, the Bangalore-based heart care hospital, will increase its bed capacity to 30,000 in five years across all its hospitals across India... Read more

Barack Obama's Cabinet has announced n $1 billion in grants to increase the use of health information technology, pushing for healthcare overhaul and job creation... Read more

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