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New Potential Personalized Medicine Platform

p-medicine project, launched in February this year, is a 4-year Integrated project aiming at developing a new and state-of-the-art IT platform for personalized medicine. The researchers elaborated the first deliverables according to the agreed 'Description of Work', they identified and described motivated use case scenarios by underlining the p-medicine platform's end user needs and requirements.

European Robots Helping to Perform Safer, Quicker Brain Surgery

EU-funded researchers from Germany, Italy, Israel and the UK have achieved a breakthrough development in robotic neurosurgery. The ROBOCAST project, has developed a new type of robot that gives two important advantages to surgeons:

Global E-Health Forum: Exclusive Interview with Mr. Chai Chuah, National Director of the National Health Board Business Unit of the New Zealand Ministry of Health

Mr. Chuah, at the Global E-Health Forum in Hamburg, you presented on "Sustainable Personalized Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities in New Zealand". How you would define "Personalized Healthcare"?

In New Zealand we are concentrating on getting the basics in place so that, when in need, a person can access health services:

GP Receptionists Help Safeguard Patients in Repeat Prescribing

Receptionists and administrative staff in UK general practices make important 'hidden' contributions to repeat prescribing, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal.

Basil Strategies and Webicina partner on Doctors 2.0 & You Social Media Platform

Denise Silber, founder of Basil Strategies, and Dr. Bertalan Mesko, founder of Webicina.com, have announced the new partnership of their two respective organizations with the launch of an original on-line Healthcare Social Media resource.

European Commission Wants Clearer Rules for Information on Prescription Medicines

The European Commission adopted revised proposals clarifying the information that industry can supply to the public on prescription-only medicines. Patients are increasingly interested in learning more about the medicines they take and want more of a say in how they are treated.

From Patient Data to Personalised Healthcare in Alzheimer's Disease

Dementia has been recently identified as a health priority both in Europe and in the USA. Efficient solutions for early diagnosis and treatments are highly needed. The PredictAD project has developed several approaches for making the diagnosis more efficient and objective.

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New Potential Personalized Medicine Platform

European Robots Helping to Perform Safer, Quicker Brain Surgery

Global E-Health Forum: Exclusive Interview with Mr. Chai Chuah, National Director of the National Health Board Business Unit of the New Zealand Ministry of Health

GP Receptionists Help Safeguard Patients in Repeat Prescribing

Basil Strategies and Webicina partner on Doctors 2.0 & You Social Media Platform

European Commission Wants Clearer Rules for Information on Prescription Medicines

From Patient Data to Personalised Healthcare in Alzheimer's Disease

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