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...using e-mail or multimedia messaging, send pictures of ulcers back to hospital specialists. "It has the potential to replace the visit to the doctor's office," says Dr. Ralph Braun, who directed the Geneva study. And since the research was conducted, mobile-phone technology has improved even more. "Newer models provide much better image quality," says Braun, who hopes to carry out a larger telemedicine trial with real nurse visits by the end of the year. "This is ideal for every type of visual diagnosis in medicine," he explains. A British hospital is already trialing picture phones...
...backed platform, London 's Routemaster bus has earned a place alongside Big Ben and Buckingham Palace as a British icon. Sadly, after nearly a half-century of loyal service since they first hit the roads in 1956, these old-fashioned double deckers are being phased out in favor of newer models that are more accessible to the elderly and disabled and don't require a bus conductor to check tickets. By 2006, there won't be a single Routemaster left on the capital's roads. But London 's loss could be your gain. The Ensignbus Company, based in the town...
...drew more than 2,000 researchers, health officials, gay activists and others from points as distant as Zaïre. As they swapped information in a blizzard of presentations, pamphlets and informal corridor exchanges, the dimensions and nature of the devastating disease came into sharper focus. Among the newer revelations...
...Beach, of course, remains the game's winter Elysium, but even there the fabled fields of the Royal Palm have been joined in the past seven years by two less stodgy polo clubs. In fact, the exclusivity of the game appears to have completely escaped some of polo's newer converts. Says Dick Laird, 34, an investment banker from Washington who took up the sport two years ago: "My friends think we're out here with Rolls-Royces in the parking lot, but it's closer to rodeo. When you get right down to it, what's so elite about...
...research needed to innovate new technologies and new products, has been flat for 30 years, while funding for life sciences has gone up threefold. We're more interested in extending our lives. But the reality is that what has kept the U.S. prosperous is not longer lives. It's newer products...