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The newest Japanese humanoid robot was made by Kokoro and is being used in hospitals, testing the reaction and interaction of the patients. The Actroid-F is eerily similar to a human being, in this case with a Japanese woman in her 20s. It has sat 1.40 m and weighs about 30 kg. The Kokoro, in partnership with researchers from the University of Tokyo [...]

Hospital Kaweah Delta Health Care District in the district of Visalia, Calif., has ordered 100 iPads which will be distributed among its employees. The idea is to facilitate access to files of patient monitoring as well as results of X-ray, blood tests, electrocardiograms and other tests. The director of technical services of the hospital, Nick Volosin [...]

An Argentine student of 23 years, who had been abandoned at a hospital when he was seven days, he found his biological mother through the networking site Facebook. Mauricio Barrios, who lives in the province of Cordoba with the family that adopted him, in March launched a Facebook page called “Busco a mi mamá” (“Looking for my mother”), [...]

Multifuncionais Systems and instruments of last generation developed for surgeries increase the patient’s safety, they perfect the monitoring of the anesthetic action, and they point new technological tendencies in three dimensions. But not just the robotics stands out at the hospitals. In the group of the small apparatuses, fundamental for different [...]

In need of an X-Ray urgently? Worry not about that long wait for your turn at the diagnosis centre. Or an appointment that takes longer than you expected. You can own your own personal X-ray machine now. The machine was designed in collaboration with NASA. It’s not advisable for individuals to get over-exposed to those rays. But for those whose lifeline [...]

Elm Grove Police Department has found a way to make people drive people slowly. To emphasize “Slower is better” they have put up interesting speed limit displays on roads. These speed limit display signs also show other figures like accident bills, chances of a crash and number of days one may spend in hospital bed in case of accident. The figures [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has already hiked up the H1N1 influenza, formerly known as swine flu, to a global pandemic level. So far, most infections are mild, but the agency believes the virus could mutate at any time to a more dangerous form. As of June 19, there are 44,287 laboratory-confirmed cases worldwide. In the U.S., the condition [...]