Getting current information about the medicines you’re taking–or administering–just got a little easier.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has started publishing a new quarterly newsletter full of important information pertaining to drug safety. The Drug Safety Newsletter contains reviews of pharmaceutical products, data on adverse effects reported, updates on recently approved new molecular [...]

Physicians in 18 hospitals are getting some assistance with diagnosing difficult cases thanks to an interesting piece of information technology known as Isabel.
Isabel is a web-based decision support system that generates a list of possible conditions based on information provided about a patient’s particular symptoms. The tool was developed by Dr Joseph Britto to [...]

The national electronic prescription drug network now extends to all 50 states thanks to this month’s addition of the last holdout, Alaska. After some initial hesitation, Alaskan officials decided to follow suit with West Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia who joined the voluntary federal program earlier this year.
Some physicians and smaller pharmacies had [...]

Not so long ago, only medical professionals and sedated patients were allowed inside the operating room while surgery was taking place…not anymore! An amazing web site called ORlive is now giving anyone with internet access the chance to view detailed footage of actual operations.

screenshot from or-live.com video
This innovative site’s search engines allow [...]

Dealing with the prospect of cancer is difficult anywhere, but even more so if you live in those parts of the world suffering from a shortage of expert medical providers. Now a new program hopes to ease that problem for the people of Afghanistan.
Roshan, the leading telecommunications operator in Afghanistan, has announced [...]