Revolutionizing mHealth through regulations

There was a proposal introduced by the Food and Drug Administration that would allow it to regulate smartphone and tablet apps that relate to health and medical needs.

CT angiography improves detection of heart disease

Researchers may have discovered one reason that African Americans are at increased risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular events.

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World No Tobacco Day is celebrated worldwide on 31st May every year to encourage tobacco users to abstain from consumption of all forms of tobacco for a period of at least 24 hours.

IIT Mumbai’s biosensor heart attack detector to be marketed

The Centre for Excellence of Nanoelectronics in IIT here is all set to take its recently developed low cost biosensor `iSens’, which detects heart attack well in advance, to the market by the end of this year.

India overwhelmed by heart disease: study

By 2010, India will carry 60 percent of the world’s heart disease burden, nearly four times more than its share of the global population, according to a recent study.

1 in 100 Children born with congenital heart disease

Over one percent of all children born in India are born with congenital heart diseases.

New Test to Diagnose Early Heart Diseases

Treadmill, stress echocardiography, Thallium and Angiography do not detect early blockages.

Natural food and not the supplement for preventing heart disease

One should take seasonal and locally grown natural foods and vegetables grown out of organic farms.

Hypoxia Result in Permanent DNA Changes

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have proven that the genomes of flies exposed to long-term hypoxia are changed to permanently affect gene expression.

Severe Heart Attacks Better Detected with New Device

A new device can detect severe heart attacks in more patients, leading to better diagnoses and faster treatment, according to new research. The new 80-lead electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), PRIME ECG, can give physicians a broader reading of the heart muscle than the traditional 12-lead ECG.

Scientists Develop Artificial Artery

British scientists have developed a new artificial artery that functions the same way as a real blood vessel.

Greek scientists develop heart attack calculator

Researchers have developed a quick and easy artificial intelligence approach to successfully calculate a patient

Digital Hospitals Enhance Performance and Patient Safety : Gp Capt (Dr) Sanjeev Sood, Indian Air Force, Hospital and Health Systems Administrator

[This article was published in the July 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

GP capt (Dr) Sanjeev Sood, Hospital and Health Systems Administrator serving in indian air force, Jodhpur, provides useful insight into the benefits achieved due to successful digitisation of a hospital in the USA.