BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
Talkback Good Day My sister was diagnosed with brain cancer.She has had radium treatment(14 sessions).The dr's has no further treatment to give.She has now developed shingles on her abdomen.She lost her speech when they did a biopsy to see how old the...
[January 22, 2004, 8:08]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
Talkback Would the treatment work for inoperable pancreatic cancer? My brother has just been diagnosed,very poor prognosis am searching for any solutions.
[October 28, 2004, 15:27]
BodyTechnic: Orthopaedic Injuries Get Cyber-therapy
Talkback can I ask where the machines in the uk are located? thanks
[October 27, 2004, 12:33]
BodyTechnic: New Funding For Brain Implants
Talkback Are you using this procedure with Christopher Reeve? If not, perhaps, you might offer him and the medical community an extraordinary contribution and medical miracle. We would be the first and reknowned pioneers of innovative scientific measures...
[August 30, 2003, 18:26]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
News The photon radiosurgery system (PRS) uses an NEC V25+ 16bit CISC microcontroller with an enhanced X86 instruction to control a beam of therapeutic radiation delivered to tumour sites. The control offered by the device allows clinicians to treat...
[December 3, 1998, 14:19]
BodyTechnic: Psychiatrist Develops Virtual Therapy
News A British psychiatrist has developed a system he says allows the treatment of patients anywhere in the world through online chat or videoconferencing -- an approach he believes might be even more effective than face-to-face counselling for some...
[December 3, 1998, 17:05]
BodyTechnic: Smelling A Diagnosis...
News In partnership with Imperial College, London-based Kiotech International, a commercial odour biotechnology firm, has launched a company called Boditech to develop instruments that diagnose a range of medical conditions using breath and body odour.
[December 3, 1998, 16:09]
BodyTechnic: Web-based Medical Info Set To Become The Norm
News In America getting medical information over the Internet is becoming increasingly popular. A recent study by Jupiter Research predicts health and medical advertising could soon generate an income of $265m (£161.6m) by the year 2002 with over half...
[December 3, 1998, 15:41]
BodyTechnic: Open Wide And Say Ahhhh To Kiosks
News A multimedia production company is planning to publish medical information on the Internet in one of the first ventures of its kind in the UK. Julia Schofield Consultants, creators of interactive CDs, hopes to trial information about rheumatism on...
[December 3, 1998, 14:40]
BodyTechnic: New Funding For Brain Implants
News The implants, hoped to one day allow paralysis victims to operate artificial limbs, are made of cone shaped glass and contain an electrode that picks up impulses from the nerve endings. Before they are implanted, the cones are coated with chemicals...
[December 3, 1998, 11:57]
BodyTechnic: Orthopaedic Injuries Get Cyber-therapy
News Developed by the Baltimore Therapeutic Equipment Company, the BTE work simulator looks similar to a piece of gym equipment complete with a vertical shaft to which a series of instruments can be attached.
[December 3, 1998, 10:59]
Spinal Cord Surgery To Be Webcast In US
News For more medical-related stories, visit the BodyTechnic Special. The surgery, to be Webcast at 7 a.m. PDT, will be followed by a live chat in which participants can ask questions of the surgeons performing the procedure.
[April 12, 1999, 8:13]
Health Experts Play Down VDU Scare
News For more medical-related stories, visit the BodyTechnic Special. A study published by researchers at Reading University Wednesday suggests that radiation from computer monitors may be responsible for a variety of maladies among office workers...
[July 15, 1999, 10:10]
Computer And Web Technology Crucial To Scientific Breakthrough
News Also read BodyTechnic. A one millimetre worm may not seem like a complex organism but its genetic code is 97 million words long and will only ever be published on the Internet. The data needed for the project was immense, requiring over 200...
[December 11, 1998, 16:33]
Heal Thyself Web Site Launched
News Take me to the Bodytechnic special Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a "heal thyself" Web site Tuesday as part of the government's modernisation plans. NHS Direct Online is the UK's first comprehensive gateway to health information on the Net and...
[December 8, 1999, 10:32]
Imperial College Develops 'self Diagnosis' Chip
News Take me to ZDNet's technology in health special - BodyTechnic Whilst the 'Lab on a chip' technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may transform the way medicine is applied, the Imperial chip could transform the diagnosis of...
[January 29, 1999, 12:24]
