Denise Silber, founder of Basil Strategies, and Dr. Bertalan Mesko, founder of Webicina.com, have announced the new partnership of their two respective organizations with the launch of an original on-line Healthcare Social Media resource.

The European Commission adopted revised proposals clarifying the information that industry can supply to the public on prescription-only medicines. Patients are increasingly interested in learning more about the medicines they take and want more of a say in how they are treated.

Dementia has been recently identified as a health priority both in Europe and in the USA. Efficient solutions for early diagnosis and treatments are highly needed. The PredictAD project has developed several approaches for making the diagnosis more efficient and objective.

Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE. Cognitive psychology, which explores how people perceive, think, remember, and more, often relies on testing volunteers that come to a research facility to participate in behavioral experiments.

The Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards is a new contest to promote the development of IT applications designed to improve the lives of those with disabilities and people that are older, to help them get more actively involved in society.

eurocancercoms has announced the launch of ecancerHub - a new, open-access, integrated approach to providing the whole cancer community - patients, doctors, researchers and policymakers - with high quality and trustworthy information. Integrating the best of social media technology into one unique platform, ecancerHub enables patients, healthcare professionals and researchers to interact, connect and share.

Better patient safety through electronic communication between clinicians has been secured by the adoption of a common clinical language across all healthcare settings and organisations.