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").
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.
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.
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.
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.
The European Commission welcomed the launch of a €500 million initiative which boosts European supercomputer capacities and opens them up to scientists across Europe. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) unites the European Commission and 20 countries across Europe in a unique initiative which will enable researchers to use super fast computers located in other countries to make up to 1000 trillion calculations per second for their research projects.
A new online platform named HealthCompetence.eu has been presented at the Information day on FP7 Health Research organised by the European Commission. This new platform includes all projects related to life science and health supported by the European Commission since 2004. Far from being a static database, it aims to present the projects' latest results in terms of technology offers, patents and publications.