Tagged: Health & News
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Surgeons implant world's smallest artificial heart into toddler News
25.05.2012 A titanium pump weighing a mere 11 grams kept a 16-month-old boy alive for 13 days until he received a real heart transplant. -
Laya Healthcare to create 100 jobs in Cork News
14.05.2012 Laya Healthcare, formerly Quinn Healthcare, is to create 100 new jobs at the company’s call centre in Cork to support the firm’s expansion and the launch of a new cardiac... -
Health-tech start-up named ‘Most Investable Business in Ireland’ News
11.05.2012 SilverCloud Health, a new Irish start-up that provides a cloud-based platform for healthcare professionals to deliver therapeutic programmes to people, has been named the Most...Tags: Health, TCD, NDRC, Medical Technologies, Cloud, Spin-out, R&D, HSE, Healthcare, Cloud Computing -
The Google diet (infographic) News
19.04.2012 The most talked-about positive aspect of working for internet search giant Google is the free food, a recent survey of Google employees by Glassdoor revealed. Now, a new... -
SpunOut.ie creates web tool for youths to find support News
12.04.2012 SpunOut.ie has created a new platform on its site for youths across Ireland to find their nearest support services to help them with issues such as depression, eating disorders... -
Tech start-up of the week: getHealth News
08.04.2012 GetHealth is a new Irish start-up that is zoning in on the health and fitness arena to gamify it. The team have created a new type of gaming app so that users can track, monitor... -
Lady Gaga and Harvard University to combat youth bullying News
06.03.2012 Pop star Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation is teaming up with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to further academic research into both cyber bullying...Categories: Consumer Tech, Computers, Digital Media, Education, Global CIO, Internet, Investments, Media, Mobile, Multimedia, Networking, Social Media -
Health website achieves 150,000 registered members News
05.03.2012 Health website Irishhealth.com has recorded the signing on of the site’s 150,000th registered member – that’s the equivalent of 5pc of the entire adult population of Ireland. -
CIT students compete in international medical engineering contest News
28.02.2012 A team of third-year Cork Institute of Technology students will compete at the 24th International Medical Engineering competition in London today. -
The digital business week News
27.02.2012 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week. -
Dalkey funeral for Shane O'Neill on 27 February News
22.02.2012 A funeral for Irish businessman Shane O'Neill, the former head of Liberty Global's content division Chellomedia, will take place on 27 February in Dalkey, Co Dublin. -
Irish businessman Shane O'Neill dies News
20.02.2012 Dublin native Shane O'Neill, the former head of Liberty Global's content division Chellomedia, died in a London hospital on Saturday after a 15-month battle with the... -
Internet addiction is becoming a serious mental health issue News
12.01.2012 Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is becoming a serious mental health issue around the world, a group of researchers in China has found. -
Home carers take to the cloud News
22.12.2011 DataSolutions’ SilverLine division has implemented an innovative cloud platform for nationwide carers network Comfort Keepers that allows its carers to ensure the people they... -
Visionary tech investor has her eye on online health News
13.12.2011 Esther Dyson is like the ‘A’ list of angel investors in the IT space. Tomorrow evening, she’ll be speaking at Science Gallery Dublin about her latest investing focal point:...Categories: Web 2.0, Science, R&D, IT Organisation, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business, Deals Done -
Forty-five per cent of workers have suffered from RSI News
13.12.2011 Forty-five per cent of Irish workers have experienced repetitive strain injury (RSI) or RSI-type pain while working, according to a new survey. -
Gene therapy milestone study to treat haemophilia News
13.12.2011 Researchers at University College London (UCL) and at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis in the US have pioneered a gene therapy that could reduce the need for... -
Irish Cancer Society invests €3.1m in research News
29.11.2011 Cancer research has received a €3.1m boost from the Irish Cancer Society, which has awarded the funds to eight Irish Cancer Society research scholars. -
Violent video games are bad for your brains, scientists say News
29.11.2011 After a week of playing violent video games men can lose the ability to control their emotions, a study of the effects of video game play on the brain has found. -
Astronauts stay fit in space via Irish technologies News
18.11.2011 How do you help astronauts deal with accelerated ageing and a lack of exercise in space? Well, these are the focus of two European Space Agency research contracts, worth...