Archive for October, 2009

Healthy Summer 09 for UK Tourism

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Last month saw the end of the summer holidays, and visitors to the UK took full advantage of the cheaper shopping and hotels due to the good currency exchange rates favouring the US Dollar and Euro. With these great rates the Summer 2009 gave many tourists the benefit of at least a 20% reduction in [...]

Arizona State Museum Exhibit Created Using 3DSOM Technology

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Arizona State Musuem now has an interactive 3D exhibit installed with content created using 3DSOM Pro, the photo-based 3d modeling tool. The “Virtual Vault” project is a collaboration with the Center for Desert Archaeology, who have scanned portions of the museum’s vessel collection using 3DSOM Pro. The models can be viewed interactively in 3D using [...]

MindTree Introduces Bluetooth Health Device Solution

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

MindTree Ltd. (NSE: MINDTREE), a global IT Solutions Company and a leading provider of Bluetooth® Intellectual Property (IP) solutions, today announced the launch of its Bluetooth health device solution on the Android platform. The solution, which was successfully demonstrated on the Google G1 Android Phone at the Continua Health Alliance Fall Summit held in Boston [...]

Novel Cardio-Pulmonary Support Device LIFEBRIDGE(R)

Monday, October 26th, 2009

German based LIFEBRIDGE AG has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a compact, lightweight, mobile heart-lung machine, a first for any manufacturer worldwide.
The novel device received CE certification for Germany and Europe in 2008, and now FDA clearance makes the mobile LIFEBRIDGE(R) available for use as a cardiopulmonary support system [...]

November is National Diabetes Month

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Medical problems and dental problems are frequently closely tied together and successful treatment requires blending of medicine and dentistry. A major concern for diabetics is the presence on periodontal disease that has been shown to make blood sugar control much more difficult to control and can even push a borderline patient into requiring drug treatment. [...]

Recession raising fear of identity theft

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

New research from Lloyds TSB has revealed 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.
Over half (52%) of those concerned about ID theft believe that the recession has increased the risk as rising [...]

ESP Launches Free Mobile Application for Health Care Professionals

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Emerging Solutions in Pain, one of the leading sources of pain medicine health information, is delighted to announce the launch of ESP Mobile, a free medical application for health care professions involved in pain management or addiction medicine. ESP Mobile provides clinicians with award-winning, robust multimedia medical information in a convenient mobile format that can [...]