MSc (Tech) Väinö Virtanen has developed a method for analysing snoring sounds by using a PC with a microphone connection and a wireless microphone. The objective was to create an application that could be used at home to monitor snoring. By utilizing this technology, researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Helsinki [...]

In a new study, Yale University researchers document a disturbing lack of consistency among U.S. hospitals in how quickly they treat patients in emergency rooms. Furthermore, some hospitals were least able to provide timely care to the sickest patients. The study appears online early in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Kit Bond (R-MO) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) reintroduced the Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act of 2009, legislation that would authorize over $600 million in federal funding over five years to prevent and treat arthritis and related rheumatic conditions.

With diabetes a national epidemic and the prevalence of the disease as high as 18 percent in the South Bronx, a unique physician “pay-for-performance” program at Montefiore Medical Center has reduced blood sugar and cholesterol levels significantly among many of this borough’s diabetes population.