Getting Ready for the Holidays - Have You Got Your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)?
Whether in another Member State for a business trip, short break or studying abroad, the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) can help save time, hassle and money if you fall ill or suffer an injury while abroad. To help holiday planning, here are some facts, figures and information on the European Health Insurance Card.
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Development of the Information Society in Russia
At the meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia dedicated to assessing interim results and prospects of employing information and communication technologies, Dmitry Medvedev noted that their development and implementation have special relevance in a country like Russia, given its enormous distances.
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Complete Female 3D Human Skeleton Model Available on PhysiomeSpace
Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna (Italy) announced the release of the first dataset that composes the Living Human Digital Library (LHDL) multiscale musculoskeletal data collection. The data represent the three-dimensional skeletal anatomy of the cadaver of a 78 years old woman with normal morphology (height: 171 cm, weight: 64 kg, from now on referred to as "LHDL_Donor1").
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Share Biomedical Data in a Free and Easy Way
Super Computing Solutions (SCS) today announces the release of an interactive digital library service, called PhysiomeSpace, designed to manage and share a large collection of heterogeneous biomedical data, such as medical imaging, motion capture, biomedical instrumentation signals, finite element models, etc.
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Half of Europeans Would Like More Information from the EU on Electromagnetic Fields
The European Commission published the results of the second Eurobarometer survey on Electromagnetic Fields (EMF). This survey was commissioned following a significant research effort over the last few years and in light of the high level of public concern and media interest on this issue.
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University Hospitals Birmingham Use BlackBerry Solution to Instantly Match Organ Donors to Patients
University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust has transformed the way that its liver transplant team matches life-saving organs to recipients using BlackBerry smartphones. Now surgeons and transplant recipient co-ordinators have secure access to patient and donor data on the move, which dramatically improves the speed of matching the most appropriate recipient for each donor and ultimately frees up time for patient care.
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MRI Research at Risk from EC Directive
Europe must act to prevent new legislation impeding the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in medical research, diagnosis and treatment, states the European Science Foundation (ESF) in a new report. The report is endorsed by the European Medical Research Councils, representing the medical research communities in 30 countries.
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