News tagged with 'Technology'

In 1990, members of an Arizona Indian tribe thought they were giving blood samples to study diabetes. The tribe has now won a lawsuit against Arizona State University for failing to adequately inform the donors what their DNA would be used to study.

Microsoft said a minority of Sidekick users lost personal contacts, calendars, notes, tasks, and pictures due to a system failure of its "cloud" technology, the largest failure so far.

reStart Addiction Recovery, the first program of its kind to help Internet addicts, is now open in Fall City, Washington, near Redmond (home of Microsoft) and Seattle.

The Center for Public Integrity is reporting on the big bucks spent by Washington’s largest lobby – the pharmaceutical industry.  In 2007- an all time new record was spent to lobby Congress - $168 million, a 32 percent jump over the previous year. 

Talk about finding a needle in a haystack – how about finding one cancer cell circulating among one billion? That is the promise of a new technology, a microchip scanner, that found circulating tumor cells and sucessfully identified lung cancer cells in 27 patients studied.

A new study suggests RFID may interfere with medical devices posing a safety hazard to patients. Scientist observed passive and active RFID systems during the study and based the findings on a critical-care adverse events scale.