23 Jun 2008
Internet addiction is a “clinical disorder”, says The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper quotes a leading psychiatrist who suggests that “obsessive internet use is a public health problem, which is so serious it should be officially recognised as a clinical disorder”.
The editorial which sparked this news story is a one-page opinion piece [...]
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01 May 2008
Six rural Maryland hospitals facing shortages of emergency department physicians will use an electronic monitoring system provided by Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., to remotely monitor intensive care patients, the Washington Post reports. Under the Maryland eCare program — the “first of its kind in the nation,” according [...]
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30 Apr 2008
In an effort to increase HIV testing among young people, Verizon Wireless, CDC and University of Georgia’s New Media Institute are collaborating on a project that transmits videos featuring college couples talking about getting tested for the virus via students’ cell phones, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
According to the Journal-Constitution, the project is the [...]
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My reading of today’s news includes this: “A police patrol car arrests a man in Tampa, Florida and that scene is caught on tape live by Google Maps camera.” Here is another piece of article talking about google maps camera:
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12 Apr 2008
In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities.
The UCI study examined in-depth the blog-reading habits of 15 participants of various ages (HOW REPRESENTATIVE THIS STUDY COULD BE?) to determine [...]
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