News tagged with virtual doctors

Camera phones can be a valuable tool for remote diagnosis and (peer) education

Camera phones may be the future for assistance in medical diagnosis, especially in remote areas, according to a new study published Dec. 14 in the online journal PLoS ONE.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body

James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart.

Technology / Software

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study finds virtual doctors visits satisfactory for both patients and clinicians

Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy

(AP) -- What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A therapist in your pocket

Brooding in your apartment on Saturday afternoon? A new smart phone intuits when you're depressed and will nudge you to call or go out with friends.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Harnessing plasmonics, engineers weld nanowires with light

At the nano level, researchers at Stanford have discovered a new way to weld together meshes of tiny wires. Their work could lead to exciting new electronics and solar applications. To succeed, they called ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Professor documents cancer battle in online videos

(AP) -- At first, David Oliver ignored the bump on his neck that he noticed while shaving. The medical school professor assumed it was calcified scar tissue from a previous surgery.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IRCM researchers fuel an important debate in the field of molecular biology

Dr. Francois Robert, molecular biology researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team confirmed that the phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II, a key enzyme in the process of gene ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application

Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections

(Medical Xpress) -- Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Big Tobacco led throat doctors to blow smoke

(Medical Xpress) -- Tobacco companies conducted a carefully crafted, decades-long campaign to manipulate throat doctors into helping to calm concerns among an increasingly worried public that smoking might ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women report feeling pain more intensely than men: study

Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to Stanford University School of Medicine investigators who mined a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the broad ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NJ parents: Disabled girl was denied transplant

(AP) -- The parents of a 3-year-old New Jersey girl say she's being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, but experts caution the situation may be much more complex.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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