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Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin
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When it comes to the future of computing, there is one major known and a principal unknown.
The ...
Mind-controlled prosthetic arm now a reality
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A man in Sweden has become the first recipient of a mind-controlled prosthetic arm that is direc...
Experimental Ebola Drug Puts Its Maker, Chimerix, Back in the Spotlight
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Just seven months ago, executives at the biotechnology company Chimerix were receiving death thr...
Zoeticx Middleware API Unifies Incompatible Electronic Medical Records
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Zoeticx has written middleware which can unify data from any current provider into a single com...
Costs Can Go Up Fast When E.R. Is in Network but the Doctors Are Not
When Jennifer Hopper raced to the emergency room after her husband, Craig, took a baseball in the face, she made sure they went to a ho...
Roche Breast Cancer Drug Appears to Greatly Extend Patients’ Lives
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A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in p...
Your Surgeon Seems Qualified, but Can He Type?
Like many clinics nationwide, my surgery office recently started using electronic medical records. Headaches and glitches abound, but o...
Health Law Falls Flat With Kentucky Voters, Even Those It Helps
Robin Evans said that while she does not support the senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes or President Obama she has taken advantag...
Maker of Hepatitis C Drug Strikes Deal on Generics for Poor Countries
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NEW DELHI — The maker of one of the costliest drugs in the world announced on Monday that it had str...
Many in West Africa May Be Immune to Ebola Virus
Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists w...