Five hundred million of a total of 1.4 billion smartphone users will be using mobile health applications in 2015, a report said. Both healthcare providers and consumers are embracing smartphones as a means for improving healthcare.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 14, 2010
A team of U.K. scientists found evidence suggesting that the risk of childhood asthma associated with prenatal paracetamol exposure may depend on antioxidant genes in the mother.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Nov 14, 2010
A breakthrough skin lifting and tightening procedure known as ‘Ultherapy’ was demonstrated live on an audience member by Dr Mehmet Oz on his show on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 13, 2010
Scientists have developed a device that can prevent several road accidents and save thousands of lives due to drivers falling asleep while driving.
Manikandan Raman
Nov 11, 2010
One of the greatest challenges facing the developing world lies with their limited access to quality healthcare, a situation that threatens to jeopardize or undermine economic growth in these nations.
Palash Ghosh
Nov 10, 2010
New research confirms that women plagued by morning sickness in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2010
Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects -- obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate -- are not to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2010
A massive Arizona campaign to get bystanders to do hands-only CPR if they see someone collapse appears to have paid off, state officials said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2010
One in four high school students and adults ages 18 to 34 engaged in binge drinking in the past month, putting themselves and those around them at risk, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2010
Donors pledged over $11.5 billion on Tuesday to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis over the next three years but the head of the fund waging the battle said it was not enough to protect millions of people at risk.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2010
A report from the institute calls for an overhaul in the responsibility and training of nurses and says doing so is key to improving the fragmented and expensive U.S. healthcare system -- President Barack Obama's signature political initiative.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2010
Mentally ill individuals who go through a specialized court system instead of the criminal justice system are less likely to be arrested again, new research hints.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2010
Researchers have combined vaccines against smallpox and anthrax into one vaccine that could protect against both germs in a biological attack.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2010
British scientists have developed a new way of joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2010
Newborn babies whose mothers got a flu shot while pregnant are less likely to get the flu or to be admitted to the hospital with a respiratory illness in the first six months of life, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2010
Employers are in a potentially powerful position to help employees and their families make healthier choices, hints a new study conducted by the IBM Corporation.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 04, 2010
British physiologist Robert Edwards, whose work led to the first test-tube baby, won the 2010 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology, the prize-awarding institute said on Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 04, 2010
A persistent outbreak of polio in Angola is now a matter of international concern and health authorities there must step up their efforts to stamp it out, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2010
European regulators will spell out requirements for copies of antibody drugs next month, paving the way for generic competition in a multibillion-dollar market that includes treatments for cancer and immune system disorders.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2010
Low-income men treated for prostate cancer are likelier to have a more aggressive disease at diagnosis compared with their better-off counterparts, a study at one U.S. public hospital suggests.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2010
Taking multivitamins may help women without cardiovascular disease to ward off a heart attack, new research shows.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2010
The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2010
