News tagged with software
Epidural simulator will help reduce risk of harm to patients
The simulator has been developed by Bournemouth University and Poole Hospital, and will help train doctors to perform epidurals. It has already been shortlisted for several prestigious awards.
Other
Apr 22, 2013 |
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Echo of health: Students design noninvasive test for pediatric heart patients
(Medical Xpress)—It has been said that the heart sometimes sees what is invisible to the eye, but thanks to four Rice University mathematics students, the echocardiograms of patients at Texas Children's ...
Cardiology
Apr 10, 2013 |
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Child heart surgeons access clearer picture of their success rate
For the first time, teams that care for children needing heart surgery have been able to review their short-term success rate better across all the different operations they perform.
Cardiology
Apr 05, 2013 |
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FDA aims to change the way it monitors safety of defibrillators
Defibrillators are supposed to save lives by shocking a patient's heart back into a normal rhythm, but they have malfunctioned in about 45,000 cases since 2005, according to the Food and Drug Administration. So on Friday, ...
Cardiology
Mar 26, 2013 |
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Pig brain models provide insights into human cognitive development
A mutual curiosity about patterns of growth and development in pig brains has brought two University of Illinois research groups together. Animal scientists Rod Johnson and Ryan Dilger have developed a model of the pig brain ...
Neuroscience
Mar 14, 2013 |
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Technology to detect Alzheimer's takes SXSW prize
Technology capable of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease long before its symptoms appear won a coveted honor for innovation at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Mar 13, 2013 |
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Adaptable software, tools aim to help rheumatoid arthritis patients
UT Arlington researchers are creating individualized, patient-centered rehabilitation software systems that will promote and support physical therapy for people with rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Mar 01, 2013 |
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Stopping cold: Scientists turn off the ability to feel cold
(Medical Xpress)—USC neuroscientists have isolated chills at a cellular level, identifying the sensory network of neurons in the skin that relays the sensation of cold.
Medical research
Feb 14, 2013 |
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CT texture analysis of tumors may be a valuable biomarker in localized esophageal cancer
CT texture analysis of primary tumors may be a potential imaging biomarker in localized esophageal cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to research being presented at the 2013 Cancer Imaging and Radiation ...
Cancer
Feb 08, 2013 |
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Comparing mechanical clot removal and standard medical therapy for severe stroke
Results of the first randomized controlled study to evaluate a procedure that removes blood clots in the brain from patients experiencing severe strokes will be presented at the International Stroke Conference in Honolulu, ...
Cardiology
Feb 08, 2013 |
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Physiotherapist creates new interactive wobbleboard to help rehabilitate patients
A physiotherapy lecturer at Bournemouth University (BU) has created a new interactive wobbleboard that will allow clinicians to better measure improvements in patients' balance.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 31, 2013 |
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Novel gene-searching software improves accuracy in disease studies
A novel software tool, developed at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, streamlines the detection of disease-causing genetic changes through more sensitive detection methods and by automatically correcting for variations ...
Genetics
Jan 22, 2013 |
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30 percent of teen girls report meeting offline with someone they met online
A new study highlights the risk that female teenagers face when they go online – a risk heightened for teen girls who have been victims of abuse or neglect.
Pediatrics
Jan 14, 2013 |
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A history lesson from genes: Using DNA to tell us how populations change
When Charles Darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection, he drew what looked like a tree. The diagram started at a central point with a common ancestor, then the lines spread apart as ...
Genetics
Jan 09, 2013 |
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Method developed targets diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease: Half of patients could be diagnosed a year earlier
(Medical Xpress)—A software tool called PredictAD developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland promises to enable earlier diagnosis of the disease on the basis of patient measurements and large databases. Alzheimer's ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Computer software
Computer software, or just software is a general term used to describe the role that computer programs, procedures and documentation play in a computer system.
The term includes:
Software includes things such as websites, programs or video games, that are coded by programming languages like C or C++.
"Software" is sometimes used in a broader context to mean anything which is not hardware but which is used with hardware, such as film, tapes and records.
For more information about Computer software, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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