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Computer System For Dementia Patients
The labour force in the health services is shrinking, there are more and more old people, and a very high proportion of them are plagued by deteriorating short- and long-term memory. All this has created a need for computer-based solutions that will enable elderly people to live safely in their own homes, but at the same time, the technology needed to take special care of them is expensive. On top of this, different standards for home sensors create problems.
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House Panel Passes Protection For Drug Makers
The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment to their broad health reform bill giving drug makers 12 years of exclusive rights to market new biologic drugs, "a setback" to the administration and consumer advocates who hoped to make generic drugs more widely available, the Wall Street Journal reports. The panel voted 47-11 on the measure, which "would also allow "evergreening," the practice by pharmaceutical companies of making minimal adjustments to their drugs, such as creating extended-release versions, as a way to lengthen their monopoly."
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QRISK® - New Heart Disease Risk Score Outperforms Existing Test
An independent external validation of QRISK® (http://www.qrisk.org) - a new score for predicting a person"s risk of heart disease - has shown that it performs better than the existing test and should be recommended for use in the United Kingdom by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
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UQ Ipswich Campus 10th Anniversary And Launch Of Teaching Of Medicine, Australia

An event to mark the celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UQ Ipswich Campus and the launch of UQ"s teaching of Medicine at UQ Ipswich will be held today, Friday, July 24, 2009. Attendees will include the Governor of Queensland, Dr Penelope Wensley, AO; Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Rix;, Professor Helen Chenery, Deputy Executive Dean (Academic); the Head of the UQ Medical School Professor David Wilkinson and health sciences students. Current medical students have provided positive feedback on the "boutique" educational experience offered by the UQ Ipswich Campus. A tour of facilities and interviews with the Head of UQ"s Medical School, as well as students, will be available. When: 10am, Friday, July 24, 2009 Where: Building 8, UQ Ipswich. University of Queensland


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