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Silent Assassin in Second Life

Diabetes UK poster ad in the virtual world of Second Life Diabetes UK has taken its Silent Assassin campaign into
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UK group urges rethink on drug advertising

An alliance of nine groups representing UK consumers, patients and medical professionals has urged the European Commission to ditch plans
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Telemedicine supports patients on warfarin

A clinical study has shown that telemedicine can be used to effectively support patients in the self-management of oral anticoagulation
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German diabetes risk management study begins

A new collaborative research project has been launched in Germany to examine how computer technology can be used to help
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Intellect calls for more IT in diabetes care

The trade association Intellect has expressed disappointment that the Department of Health’s latest policy statement on diabetes fails to give
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King’s Fund to run telehealth network

The Department of Health has funded a network to help expand use of telehealth and telecare and disseminate the lessons
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Alcatel-Lucent launches LifeStat

French telecomms giant Alcatel-Lucent has announced the launch outside Canada of LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a telemedicine service
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Largest ever UK telecare trial starts

The start of the UK’s largest ever trial of telecare and telehealth in a £31m programme covering 6000 people has
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Wellpoint Sentinel System to monitor drug safety

US health insurer WellPoint Inc is developing a system that will use its 35m member database to monitor and more
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New EU project will help to predict glucose levels

AN EU collaborative research project has been granted €7.1m to develop a personalised blood glucose prediction tool.
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