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A Pennsylvania health insurer has deployed a smartphone app enabling members to view and share electronic medical records.

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A US couple who prayed rather than seeking medical attention for their dying daughter are sentenced to six months in jail.

The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) extended enthusiastic thanks and great appreciation to Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) and Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-Ohio) for establishing a new Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus in the House of Representatives. Reps.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares the prestigious award for chemistry with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for elucidating how cells make proteinsThe Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for unravelling the mechanism by which cells make proteins.The process is fundamental for life and describes how cells use genetic code to produce the building blocks of living organisms. The prize was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a US scientist at the Medical Research Council's prestigious Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the American Thomas Steitz at Yale University, and an Israeli, Ada Yonath at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Inside every cell in all organisms, there are strands of DNA. They contain the blueprints for how a human being, a plant or a bacterium, looks and functions. But the DNA molecule is passive. If there was nothing else, there would be no life.The blueprints are transformed into living matter through the work of structures c

The most common cause of hip pain in young children is the inflammation or swelling of the membrane covering the hip joint. It is known as irritable hip or acute transient synovitis. According the Medilexicon's medical dictionary, synovitis is: 'Inflammation of a synovial membrane, especially that of a joint; in general, when unqualified, the same as arthritis.

The device pulls health data from multiple sources such as hospital imaging systems, labs, and electronic medical records.

An anonymous reader writes 'Engadget points out one of the more interesting ways to use a multitouch table surface so far. Researchers at Norrkoping Visualization Centre and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Sweden have fitted such a device with stunning, volume-rendered visualizations of high-resolution MRI data. If you've ever wondered what the inside of a human being really looks like, but lacked the grit or credentials to watch an autopsy in the flesh, check it out.' of this story at Slashdot.

In the past week, the Northwest has seen its share of debt financings in medical devices and bio-IT, small funding deals and partnerships in Internet software, and mounting interest in an impending IPO. -Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rolled out a new mobile payments service that lets applications developers and distributors tap into the e-commerce giant's one-click checkout ...

Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 60, of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named to receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School. The scientists discovered an enzyme that plays a key role in normal cell function, as well as in cell aging and most cancers.