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Sarah Willey's Blog – November 2010 Archive (2)

Researchers Develop Mobile-Phone Based Blood Pressure Monitor

This is an example of the future in personalized medicine. Check out this article. But if you're not up to clicking on the link, below is a summary of the article.

Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, have developed a mobile-phone based system to monitor blood pressure.

The monitoring system automatically picks up the patient's home blood pressure readings,…

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Added by Sarah Willey on November 23, 2010 at 8:23am — 1 Comment

Online Medicine-- What Do You Think?

There's an emerging trend in healthcare according to a new article by Rita Rubin of USA Today: See here.

Online companies with names such as "MDLiveCare" and "RingADoc" are diagnosing and treating common conditions such as allergies and the flu over the Internet or on the phone, forcing state regulators to revisit decade-old rules about what constitutes a…

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Added by Sarah Willey on November 19, 2010 at 8:51am — No Comments

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