The Alzheimer’s Association Southeast Florida Chapter and the National Alzheimer’s Association Chapter are working together to interview and film Spanish-speaking caregivers and persons with Alzheimer’s of Cuban or Puerto Rican descent. They are looking for these specific nationalities, as other chapters across the nation have also participated to involve Spanish-speakers of different nationalities. The project will be a filmed interview in Spanish discussing each person’s experience with the disease.
This is a very important project to promote early detection of Alzheimer’s to Spanish-speaking individuals. The Hispanic population is 1.5 times more …

Binaytara Foundation (BTF) launches telemedicine between physicians in USA and those in Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal to help improve patient care and promote evidence-based medicine in Nepal. Telemedicine involves the use of broadband technology that provides real-time high speed access for the transfer of medical imaging, video, data and voice. The technology also enables e-learning and training through video consultation. Expert physicians from the USA have volunteered for this project.
Binaytara Foundation (BTF) is a US-based Illinois non-profit organization exempt from taxation pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of …

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced the funding of 21 new Young Investigator Awards at 17 leading cancer centers in the U.S. and Canada. Designed to encourage the most innovative minds in cancer research to focus their careers on prostate cancer, the awards provide recipients with three years of funding to test transformational research questions for prostate cancer patients. The 2010 Young Investigator Awards represent a new $4.5 million investment in the global cancer research community by PCF.
With the announcement of the 2010 Young Investigators, PCF is now funding …

NaviNet, announced that Kim Labow, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, will participate in a panel discussion about innovative approaches to achieve meaningful use and adoption of health information technology (HIT). Labow joins industry peers at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, held in Washington, D.C. from April 12-14, 2010.
The three-day conference attracts senior executives, as well as government officials, from the nation’s largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies and leading government agencies.

One of the first apps developed for Apple’s new iPad is a tool to help autistic people communicate. Called iMeanTM, it turns the entire iPad screen into a large-button keyboard, with text display and word prediction. It allows people who are speech-challenged to communicate their needs and ideas directly, distinctly and independently.
Daniel Bergmann, the first user of iMean, talking to his father by tapping the app. He was comfortable enough with the iPad to hold it himself the very first day. Photo by Meredith Bergmann
iMean was developed by Michael …

Xanga.com has launched Autisable.com – where people can create their own blogs and share their own journey dealing with Autism.
Marc Ginsburg, President of Xanga said, “We’ve seen countless communities of support form around people who share their struggles on Xanga. And we wanted to provide a similar service specifically for people tackling the challenges of Autism.”
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
Xanga asked one of their long time users, Joel Manzer, to lead the effort on Autisable.
Joel …

Aetna recently awarded a $20,000 grant to the National Cancer Coalition (NCC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce the suffering of cancer patients and their families by providing medical and financial relief, research, and educational programs throughout the world in an effort to improve patients’ quality of life.
The grant will support the NCC [...]