Tech transformation prescribed for geriatric health care (EETimes)

Intel's digital health group was created as a P&L center in a 2005 reorganization, so it's hardly surprising that the company is researching health products and services in Europe, where an aging population is one of the biggest challenges facing society. Health care - Geriatrics - Health - Medicine - Population

Nanotechnology in the Fight Against Cancer (PhysOrg)

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine.

Reportlinker Adds Drug-device Combinations: The Global Market (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

College helps supply workers for the burgeoning nanotechnology field (Rosemount Thisweek)

Students at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount are showing that something much smaller than the diameter of a human hair can be the next big thing in the American economy.

Is It “Nano” Cream? Or Isn’t It? (New Haven Independent)

The luxury makeup company Chantecaille hawks 1.7 ounce pots of high-tech sounding “Nano Gold Energizing Cream” for $420. Other cosmetics companies avoid references to nanotechnology like a dead rat on the samples counter.

Night Read (Ohio): Austen BioInnovation Institute partners with Orthopaedic Research Laboratories (MedCity News)

News and notes from a day in MedCity, Ohio: The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has struck a strategic partnership with Cleveland orthopedic device testing and design firm Orthopaedic Research Laboratories to discover, develop and commercialize novel technologies and solutions that advance orthopedic care, according to a press release. Mentor infection prevention, decontamination and ...

Scientists use nanotech to prevent heart disease (ARNnet)

University researchers have built nanoparticles designed to cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine - a breakthrough that could help fight heart disease.

Science of the small has big potential (Swissinfo)

Nanotechnology, a science dealing with minute particles, has huge potential for Switzerland, according to a report.

Scientists use nanotech to prevent heart disease (Network World)

Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School are using nanotechnology to create particles that stick to artery walls and can release medication as needed.

Nanotech firms call on gov't to co-ordinate research (ZDNet UK)

By co-ordinating nanotechnology research, BIS could help build a coherent picture of the technology's health effects, according to an industry group