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Reduced Emergency Room Visits For Elderly Patients Attributed To 'Virtual' Health Care Team Approach
May 1, 2008 — Elderly patients suffering from chronic illnesses who receive 'virtual' care from a team of medical experts linked together via phone, fax and e-mail, make fewer emergency visits than patients who do ... > full story -
Virtual World Therapeautic For Addicts: Study Shows Impact Of Environment To Addiction Cravings
April 30, 2008 — Patients in therapy to overcome addictions have a new arena to test their coping skills -- the virtual world. A new study found that a virtual reality environment can provide the climate necessary to ... > full story -
New Robots Can Provide Elder Care For Aging Baby Boomers
April 21, 2008 — Over 77 million baby boomers will retire in the next 30 years, and robots are ready to assist with elder care. Engineers have created a robotic assistant that can recognize medical emergencies and ... > full story -
Experiencing Virtual Products Prior To Product Development
April 21, 2008 — From cars and mobile phones to computers and furniture, most of today's products are created virtually on a computer before they are actually produced. Researchers are adding new functionalities to ... > full story -
Walking Through Virtual Environments: One Virtual Step For Man, One Real Leap For Mankind
April 14, 2008 — Imagine being able to take a step back in time and walk through the streets of ancient Pompeii hours before the eruption of Vesuvius. In April 2008, European researchers will demonstrate that walking ... > full story -
Supercomputers Simulating As Close As Possible To Reality
April 14, 2008 — Supercomputers simulate products and manufacturing processes within minutes. In the Computer Aided Robust Design CAROD project, researchers are developing new methods and software that significantly ... > full story -
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Why Is The Internet Sometimes So Slow? Internet 'Black Holes' May Be To Blame
April 9, 2008 — A surprisingly large fraction of Web traffic gets sucked into temporary black holes, in which information between two computers disappears en route. A new online observatory monitors Internet black ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Underground Ride Reveals Extent Of Public Paranoia
April 2, 2008 — A virtual reality underground ride has been used by researchers to reveal the extent that paranoia occurs in the general public. The research demonstrates that suspicious or paranoid thoughts are ... > full story -
3D Library Visit: Using Second Life To Research Everyday Problems
April 1, 2008 — Second Life is more than an on-line game for some young scientists. It is a handy three-dimensional tool used for resolving real issues. Computer Science students have recently used it to analyze and ... > full story -
Visual Technology Enables Brain To Learn In New Ways
March 31, 2008 — Tufts University has literally expanded the visualization concept with a new 14-foot by 8-foot visualization wall that enables researchers to translate the most abstract, complex science into ... > full story -
Virtual Telemicroscope Permits Off-site Medical Diagnosis
March 28, 2008 — Scientists have developed and patented a virtual telemicroscope. The software permits off-site pathologists to diagnose cancer or other diseases in patients living in remote locations around the ... > full story -
Virtual-reality Video Game To Help Burn Patients Play Their Way To Pain Relief
March 22, 2008 — To a patient recovering from severe burns, no place would be more soothing than a polar landscape of gently falling snowflakes, snowmen, penguins, igloos and icy rivers. That's the thinking behind ... > full story
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