Smart pens could soon be helping hospitals take better care of patients.
When combined with digital paper, the pens make it much easier to track a patient’s vital signs during their stay in hospital.

By constantly capturing data about patients during routine examinations, it should become possible to spot problems before they get serious.

In a typical chemistry lab, the smallest containers hold just two millilitres of liquid.
But despite their size, these tiny glass tubes still contain billions of atoms.

Now, there are “nano test tubes”, so small they hold just a few hundred atoms.

In what may be a new option for patients who need heart transplants, surgeons in Maryland said Thursday they successfully removed a patient’s heart,

reconstructed it with cow and human tissue, then placed it back into her chest.

The 12-hour operation, the first of its kind in the United States, was performed last week at the University […]

The next step for wireless Internet access has less to do with your notebook PC than it does with your TV.

Now that Wi-Fi wireless networking technology is starting to speed up to 54 megabits per second and beyond, wireless connections will soon be suitably fast enough to carry high-quality video streams stored either locally on […]

No cure for diabetes. No cure for Aids. No cure for Alzheimers or the common cold. No new drugs except those for weight or sexual performance.

That is the likely outcome of 40 years of rising costs and longer times to get new drugs certified.

Howard Asher, director of global life sciences for Sun Microsystems, said that […]