News tagged with medical care

Canadians don't mean what we say about government spending

Many Canadians complain about government, especially after tax time.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Life imitates art in health-care recruitment workshop

Renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's artwork is explored from a medical humanities perspective in a workshop entitled "Frida Kahlo – The Forgotten Medical Student."

Biology / Other

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New poll shows Canadians want to make family a priority

Canadians want to make family a priority – 85 per cent want to spend more time with their families and 60 per cent want governments to support policy changes that make it easier to raise a family, according to a national ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Majority of Americans say research and development are key to building US economy

The new edition of America Speaks, a compilation of public opinion polls commissioned by Research!America, demonstrates increasing public support for research and innovation to improve health, create jobs and boost the economy. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Jobs said little about pancreatic cancer struggle

(AP) -- Steve Jobs managed to live more than seven years with a rare form of pancreatic cancer that grows more slowly than the common kind. But his need for a liver transplant two years ago was a bad sign ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 8

Report reveals economic, social costs of hunger in America

The Great Recession and the currently tepid economic recovery swelled the ranks of American households confronting hunger and food insecurity by 30 percent. In 2010 48.8 million Americans lived in food insecure households, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance

Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 13

Most Canadians can be uniquely identified from their date of birth and postal code

There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making. But Canadians are more likely to allow the sharing of their personal data if they believe ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doctors turn to smartphones, tablets to access medical data

If a patient of Arlington, Texas, physician Ignacio Nunez shows up at the emergency room when the doctor is not at the hospital, he doesn't have to wait long to start investigating what might be wrong.

Technology / Software

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microsoft 'vault ' open for dying Google Health records

Microsoft on Monday offered its HealthVault as a new care center for digitized medical records kept at Google's dying Health service.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

17 infants die in 48 hours at 1 Indian hospital

(AP) -- At least 17 infants have died in the last 48 hours at a government-run hospital in eastern India and the state is investigating, media reported Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fuzzy math in health law formula

(AP) -- Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories would pay sharply different amounts for private health insurance due to what appears to be an unintended consequence of the new health care law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Health care

Health care, or healthcare, refers to the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, clinical laboratory sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.

Before the term health care became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease.

For more information about Health care, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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