A stretcher races through the entrance of a busy hospital. The car-accident victim lies on top and grimaces in pain. While surface injuries looks gruesome, the real medical danger is invisible - internal organ damage caused by being crushed...

In collaboration with India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett announced a sweeping new effort to transform healthcare in rural India. The health projects, starting in Tamil Nadu, a state with a...

The Third Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT 3.0) (December 9-11, Washington, DC) is designed to dispel the confusion that reigns at the intersection of health care and technology. Health care practitioners,...

More than 800 pathologists experienced a unique, large-scale virtual microscopy slide seminar on the internet during the 21st European Congress of Pathology, held in Istanbul between 8-13 September. It was the first time that a microscopy slide...

Researchers who have easy access to relevant tools, biospecimens, and patient information can focus their work on finding cures for cancer and other diseases instead of being bogged down by the logistics of finding appropriate numbers and types...

ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- IBM scientists have created software that allows physicians to use an avatar to obtain medical data in the same manner in which they interact with patients.The prototype technology, created at IBM's...