THE smartphone is becoming the heart of healthcare with a new wave of Aussie-made apps that do everything from helping people to manage cancer treatment through to early-stage dementia. Matilda Kubany-Deane, a 22-year-old fine art and design student from Sydney who has been diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, uses the CancerAid app ... Read More »
About 70 million people have high blood pressure in the United States alone. And like many other chronic diseases, it’s become increasingly recognized that clinic visits every 3 months just doesn’t cut it when managing high blood pressure. We’ve talked about how home blood pressure monitoring can help fill that ... Read More »
Google launched the first Android phone in the US in 2008, and there are now 1.4 billion Android users around the world. The total ecosystem is huge: 400 companies partner with 500 carriers to produce over 4,000 distinct phones, tablets, and TVs running Android. When we founded Android, the idea ... Read More »
Legendary Mexican singer Juan Gabriel has died aged 66 of a heart attack in California, days after performing to 17,000 fans at the Los Angeles Forum. Born into poverty, Alberto Aguilera Valadez, his real name, rose to sell more than 100m albums and had his own star on the Hollywood ... Read More »
Even brief exposures of the eggs of Atlantic haddock to low concentrations of dispersed crude oil can cause severe and usually deadly deformities in developing fish, an international research team has found. The findings indicate that oil spills at high latitudes could have serious impacts on some of the world’s ... Read More »
Smartphone apps and other digital technology have the potential to provide rapid emergency care for cardiac arrest, heart attacks and strokes, says researchers. Digital technology like mobile devices, social media, visual media and crowdsourcing could aid in swift reponse to the patient and thus, boost their survival odds. “When seconds ... Read More »
