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Novel antimicrobial coating combines carbon nanotubes and natural materials

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The demand for antimicrobial coatings is growing at a fast pace. In the U.S. alone, the market for these products is expected to grow from $175 million in 2005 to over $550 million in 2012. This market is not only driven by the urgent need of hospitals to reduce infections, although it would appear that they need it most: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the infections acquired in hospitals alone affect approximately 2 million persons annually. In the U.S., between 44,000 and 98,000 people die every year from infections they picked up in hospitals. With a growing concern about the role of contaminated surfaces in the spread of infections such as SARS and MRSA, antimicrobial surfaces have become popular in such areas as consumer products, public spaces such as schools and offices

Hospitals Auction Patients' Unpaid Medical Debt Online

Using a new tactic to recoup unpaid medical bills, some hospitals have begun auctioning patients' debt online, the

University Hospitals Launches First Women's Robotic Surgery Program

University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital has established the region’s first robotic surgery program, expanding the use of minimally invasive techniques for more women. Hysterectomies, gynecologic cancer surgery and uterine fibroid removal are among the numerous women’s health surgical procedures that specialists at UH can perform using the state-of-the-art da Vinci Surgical System.

At Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, scientists are building bots aimed at disaster zones, hospitals €" and alien planets.

Bots aimed at disaster zones, hospitals — and alien planets

U.S. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Hospitals

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U.S. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Hospitals

THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- The first national print advertising campaign focusing on the quality of care in American hospitals was launched this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Hospitals

THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- The first national print advertising campaign focusing on the quality of care in American hospitals was launched this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Hospitals

THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- The first national print advertising campaign focusing on the quality of care in American hospitals was launched this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Hospitals

THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- The first national print advertising campaign focusing on the quality of care in American hospitals was launched this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Web Site Helps Consumers Compare Hospitals

THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- The first national print advertising campaign focusing on the quality of care in American hospitals was launched this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Consumer Reports Joins With Dartmouth to Launch New Web Tool to Rank Nearly 3,000 U.S. Hospitals for

Consumer Reports Joins With Dartmouth to Launch New Web Tool to Rank Nearly 3,000 U.S. Hospitals for Chronic Care; Finds Stark Variations in Amount of Hospital Care for Cancer, Heart Disease, and Lung Disease

JAOtech: New camera shutter from JAOtech conforms to European privacy standards; A new camera shutter has been developed to ensure personal privacy for Smart Terminal users in hospitals

TMCNet: JAOtech: New camera shutter from JAOtech conforms to European privacy standards; A new camera shutter has been developed to ensure personal privacy for Smart Terminal users in hospitals

Some Hospitals Auction Patient Debt Online To Collection Agencies To Help Recoup Unpaid Medical Bills

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Robots 'to Staff Hospitals'

Rocket-propelled "community centres", robotic nurses and hovering hospital beds were a few of the ideas pupils from Coventry came up with as part of their project on the future of the NHS.

Aethon's Train-Themed Delivery Robot Available To Children's Hospitals Nationwide

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Consumer Reports Joins With Dartmouth to Launch New Web Tool to Rank Nearly 3,000 U.S. Hospitals for Chronic Care; Finds Stark Variations in Amount of Hospital Care for Cancer, Heart Disease, and Lung Disease

How patients and family members dealing with chronic life-threatening illnesses can increase their chances of getting the best care, no matter where

Consumer Reports Joins With Dartmouth to Launch New Web Tool to Rank Nearly 3,000 U.S. Hospitals for Chronic Care; Finds Stark Variations in Amount of Hospital Care for Cancer, Heart Disease, and Lung Disease

How patients and family members dealing with chronic life-threatening illnesses can increase their chances of getting the best care, no matter where

Consumer Reports Joins With Dartmouth to Launch New Web Tool to Rank Nearly 3,000 U.S. Hospitals for Chronic Care; Finds Stark Variations in Amount of Hospital Care for Cancer, Heart Disease, and Lung

How patients and family members dealing with chronic life-threatening illnesses can increase their chances of getting the best care, no matter where

Consumer Reports Joins With Dartmouth to Launch New Web Tool to Rank Nearly 3,000 U.S. Hospitals for Chronic Care; Finds Stark Variations in Amount of Hospital Care for Cancer, Heart Disease, and Lung

CORRECTING and REPLACING American River Bankshares Announces the Results of Their 2008 Annual Meeting

Students Share NHS 60 Designs for NHS ; SCHOOLS: Kids' Visions of the Future Include Robotic Nurses Andall- in-One Hospitals

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Hospital 'Code Red' days increasing

Hospitals are experiencing more frequent Code Red days this year than last and the winter flu season hasn't started yet, National's health spokesman Tony Ryall says.

Geordies unify physical and IT security

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a single sign-on system across all its 11,000 clinical and administrative staff as part of a wider construction and modernisation effort.

Google Takes Health Records Online

Google's partnership with several hospitals to test its new service, Google Health, has spurred some in the policy community to question whether new legislation is needed to protect patients' privacy.

Springer Handbook of Robotics Debuts at ICRA

Robots! Robots on Mars and in oceans, in hospitals and homes, in factories and schools, robots fighting fires, making goods and products, saving time and lives. Robots today are making a considerable impact on many aspects of modern life, from industrial manufacturing to healthcare. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is also vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people's lives. The prospect of practical robots among humans follows half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline.

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