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Ear-Implanted Microbeads to Monitor Blood Glucose

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Life Bio Electromechanical Autonomous Nano Systems Center recently reported in [MORE]

Algorithm for Lower Dose CT Imaging

Virtual colonoscopy, which uses a CT scan instead of the traditional probe, has the advantage of being non-invasive, but carries [MORE]

VC’s Pursuing Obesity Projects

With the World Health Organization (WHO) projecting that, by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight, and among them 700 [MORE]

Restricting Salt in the Diet

If American men could cut their daily salt intake from an average of 10 grams to 7, and women, [MORE]

Telemedicine Trial for Diabetes Showed No Cost Benefit

In 2000, Medicare commissioned a study of telemedicine services for type 2 diabetics, and the results that were reported this [MORE]

Cancer: Worldwide, Killer #1

WHO reports that as soon as 2010, cancer will surpass heart disease as the world’s greatest killer.  Its global incidence [MORE]

Global Center for Telemedicine

Reuters reported last month on the dramatic rise of telemedicine services in Bangalore, India.  With western educated doctors, telemedicine infrastructure, [MORE]