pernicious anemia.

Perhaps with this little gadget my father can more easily inject his vitamin B12 and not end up with jab marks all over his legs.

We thank you for your continued readership and support, and your excellent comments and tips. We are not leaving; we are simply consolidating. See you there!

-Jen Creer, Lead Blogger

The Wireless Weblog's Michael Sciannamea wonders if "Bubble Talk" is the next killer app in mobile technology, covers an MIT project to bring low-cost laptops to poor children around the world, and says the new Rolling Stones album will soon be available on a "gruvi" Flash memory card for mobile phones and PDAs

Cinematical's Karina Longworth discovers the documentary John Kerry doesn't want you to see, Martha Fischer reports on more Spiderman 3 villain rumors, and Robert Newton interviews Neil Gaiman.

Divester's Bill Reals chills out with his favorite diving movies, while Willy Volk reveals that some fishermen have been using stray dogs as shark bait and wonders whether it?s better to be killed by a giant croc or a great white.

TVSquad's Bob Sassone live-blogs the live Will and Grace and Keith McDuffee announces the final straw: The Man Show coming to G4 while C.K. Sample, Jen Segrest, and Ryan Budke do an Arrested Development chatcast.

PVR Wire's Todd Carter reveals poll results showing how many hours most readers record each week, debates whether TiVo should be No. 2 product of past 10 years, and discusses TiVo's new cancellation fee.

Luxist's Rick Reed discovers a home theatre customization system while Deidre Woollard pores through the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book and finds out what $50 million buys in Southern California.

HDBeat's Kevin C. Tofel invites votes for the best fall network premieres and Matt Burns tells you how to win an HDTV from HP while Richard Lawler reports that Microsoft and Intel jointly back HD-DVDs.

DV Guru's Ajit Anthony highlights a new short-film contest that may just land you a job at Dreamworks and discusses a new article about the true quality of the new HDV format while Mike Burgoyne talks about a new hack for adding night vision to the CVS disposable camcorder.

Slashfood's Sarah Gilbert ponders vegan cheesecake and self-proclaimed "saltaholic" Sarah J. Gim reviews some basic sushi etiquette, plus Nick Vagnoni spotlights some food porn from Australia with this chocolate cloud cake.

BBHub's Russell Shaw writes a preview of the T-Mobile BlackBerry 7105t, out this coming Monday, writes about the forthcoming BlackBerry 8700, which wasn't announced this week but just might be next week and has the scoop on how BlackBerry brought Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow closer together.

Hackaday's Fabienne Serriere builds a phone line tap from modem parts and colors her iPod headphones to match her black Nano while C.K. Sample, III shows how to downgrade your PSP to play homebrew games.

Engadget's Paul Miller finds out five reasons for Palm's slide, Peter Rojas thanks all of you who made it to the San Francisco Reader Meetup and iTunes for Windows Mobile 5.0 is a fake.

FlashInsider is giving away a ticket to Macromedia MAX! Plus Mike Schleifstein mashes a file upload concept and PHP to find a possible solution to saving live images in Flash and David Robinson tells you how to get Macromedia Studio 8 (including Flash 8) right now.

The Digital Photography Weblog's Jay Savage talks about people who are ready to kill for their cameras and Samsung unveils 16GB compact flash cards, available next year. Plus, UCB gears up for the next World Wide Panorama event.

Cinematical's Karina Longworth has bad news: not only is Evil Dead getting remade, but it looks like Ashton Kutcher's playing Ash. Plus, she tackles Thumbsucker and Ryan Stewart reviews The Corpse Bride.

Slashfood's Karina Longworth asks you to get your slice on for the next Slashfood Theme Day and explains the George Clooney method of hangover avoidance and Josh Ozersky on why hip does not equal hot when it comes to hamburgers.

HD Beat's Matt Burns is understandably smitten by Toshiba's new 50-inch SED set and uncovers Samsung's wireless Blu-Ray recorder while Kevin C. Tofel recalls the 80's as MTV announces an HD station.

Luxist's Deidre Woollard checks out a mobile home that doubles as a yacht marvels at the Falcon City of Wonders and discovers Charles Bronson's farm.

The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog's Darren Chan discovers how to beautify a face with Photoshop and David Chartier takes note of Dan Margulis' new book on Photoshop LAB Color while Jan Kabili finds a useful tutorial on using a mask to make a complex selection.

BBHub's Russell Shaw has the scoop on the forthcoming BlackBerry 8700 (code named "Electron") drinks too much coffee, opens Photoshop and mods a hypothetical BlackBerry iPod display window might look like and then gets back to reality - and the service of Murphy's Law - by pointing you to an online store where you can buy almost any spare BlackBerry part imaginable.

PVR Wire's Martin Conaghan surveys the TiVo DRM controversy, Todd Carter asks why his Mac and TiVo are talking and Todd Carter wonders how many hours of PVR programming you record.

Divester's Willy Volk recounts the story of two divers trying to spend 10 consecutive days underwater, Erik Olsen reveals the Top 10 Shark Dives, and Bill Reals relates the story of a cave diver who nearly died.

Engadget's Barb Dybwad gets more details and pics of the Nintendo Revolution controller, Ryan Block announces the Engadget T-Shirt Contest Design winners and Fabienne Serriere shows you how to embed a wifi detector into a backpack strap.

Slashfood just opened for business, and we're already planning a Grilled Cheese party. Plus Karina Longworth makes fun of Gwyneth Paltrow's junk food intolerance and Keith McDuffee lists the top 25 food hacks.

FlashInsider's Mike Schleifstein finds RentACoder looking for a Flash-based gas pump and rips into Kottke.org for forgetting Flash during a future OS article, plus David Robinson reports on making the Adobe-Macromedia merger official.

Divester?s Willy Volk reports on the shark that killed a scuba diver, drools over the Neptus 60 Cliff Dwelling, and lusts for the coolest pool toy of all time ? the AquaPub.

Droxy's Ryan Saghir gets a hands on view of the new Sirius S50 and a sneak peek at the Sirius Replay then he takes a look at converting RSS feeds into Podcasts with Audiolicious.

HD Beat's Matt Burns brings you up to speed on the HD-DVDand Blu-Ray war while Kevin C. Tofel reveals how VOOM HDTV is reborn and illustrates what you're missing if you don't have a widescreen set.

TVSquad's Bob Sassone yearns for an Eyes DVD while Keith McDuffee rounds up the latest spoilers and
rumors and Karina Longworth reports on a Spike TV movie.

Luxist's Peter Thompson finds a little chic protection for his iPod and Rick Reed shows a great way to break your diet while Deidre Woollard checks out the customized Piaget Fingerprint Watch.

The VoIP Weblog chronicals the launch of Google Talk while Ted Wallingford rants about VoIP industry analysts' screwy analysis.

The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog's David Chartier covers some of the great photographic hoaxes and waxes nostalgic about old Photoshop splash screens while Jan Kabili reports on Ben Willmore's new Photoshop Insight Injections series, which starts off with an insightful article on using Camera Raw with Smart Objects.

DV Guru's Mike Burgoyne reviews the new JVC GR-X5 Camcorder and has some tips for packaging your next DVD plus Ajit Anthony looks at new software to help catalogue your video library.

Hackaday's Fabienne Serriere shows how to get started with the csound software synth while Eliot Phillips shows how to build a WiFi repeater and explains the easy lockpicking technique "bumping".

TUAW's Laurie A. Duncan goes over her Google Talk Mac wish list while Scott McNulty conducts a battery survey with coconutBattery and C.K. Sample, III wants to know what podcasts you've been listening to since the introduction of iTunes 4.9.

Joystiq's Vladimir Cole teaches about the short and long tails of Massively Multiplayer Games while Ben Striegel wonders about prejudice in the games retail industry.

Engadget returns to it roots in 1985, but first Barb Dybwad wants to know where Intel's VIIV came from and Peter Rojas wants to know what you want to know about the HTC Universal.

Finally don't forget to check out Download Squad's review of Google Talk.

The findings are based on interviews with 8- to 12-year-olds and show how resilient youngsters can be even when facing something as scary as cancer. The results also indicate that children's perceptions very often differ from those of their parents, whose own negative feelings about the experience may influence how they feel their children are coping.

Quoted in an AP article on the study, Dr. Smita Bhatia, lead author and a pediatric cancer specialist at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California said, "What we are finding is very reassuring. Parents should be encouraged to know that young survivors "can indeed put their cancer behind them."

The full text study is available here. 

The new PDAs and the PatientKeeper software provide a significant advantage to caregivers by lessening the amount of paperwork and increasing the speed with which patient care can be provided. "PatientKeeper allows you to get patient labs, statistics and other information without having to go to one of the PIN stations around campus," second-year medical student Israel Nosnik said. "[The PDAs are] working out great. I can't live without it."

Before entering into the partnership with PatientKeeper, DUHS was developing its own mobile computing software, but the decision to switch to PatientKeeper was "a win-win for both sides," Ahmad said. "Developing a product in-house is very expensive, so we negotiated a deal with PatientKeeper that was cheaper, very aggressive and could be quickly deployed."

The Wireless Telehealth Gateway is a wireless Bluetooth-to-PSTN gateway designed for home use by patients. It is intended to be used in combination with a variety of patient monitors upon the prescription of a licensed physician or other authorized healthcare provider. Its purpose is to transmit selected medical information - such as weight, blood pressure or blood glucose levels - over a normal residential telephone line directly to the healthcare facility. The Wireless Telehealth Gateway is fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, thus ensuring protection of confidentiality and security of patient health data.

The Wireless Telehealth Gateway serves as the remote communications link between compatible patient monitors and the compatible healthcare facility at another location - which could be a physician office, disease management center, or other out-of-hospital caregiver facility.

The Wireless Telehealth Gateway is a "black box" device that is not connected to or operated by the patient. The device does not measure, interpret or make any decisions on the vital data it conveys. Rather, when the device has received the measured values, it stores the data and generates a call using the analog phone line, conveying the data to a remote facility.

"In 2004 we estimate the total medical Wi-Fi market to be $495 million in the United States. That includes Wi-Fi equipment, Wi-Fi networking and systems integration, and also mentoring, control and optimization. Going out to 2010 we estimate it will be about $2 billion."

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The wireless industry has a lot riding on healthcare, where the dominant protocol among competing wireless options stands to enjoy significant revenues. The study projects that wireless networking and related service revenues in the healthcare arena will be a $7 billion business in the United States by 2010.

Some of the more notable sessions include:

• An Overview of 802.15.4 and ZigBee
• Wireless Sensor Networking: The Future is Now
• The Role of Wireless in Homeland Security
• Wireless Applications within the Healthcare Industry
• Smart Homes: Bring Wireless Sensors to the Residence
• RFID and Embedded Sensors: Deployment, Priorities, Potential and Paranoia

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This deployment will increase the number of physicians using the PDAs distributed by ACHA to 3,000. The effort is designed to reduce fraud, enhance patient safety by providing real-time data and drive down medication costs by better utilization of prescriptions.

The PDAs access Medicaid's preferred drug list, patient-specific prescription histories, clinical pharmacology drug information and drug interaction screening tools.

The system also provides a 60-day history of all Medicaid drugs dispensed to a specific patient regardless of prescriber, which allows physicians to better monitor patient medications.

Here's news of a trial about to begin in Portland, Oregon and Las Vegas that uses wireless networks, along with RFID tags and sensors, to help those stricken with the disease lead more productive lives at home. Intel is leading the effort through its research arm, Proactive Health Research.

RFID tags are placed on items such as teacups, plates, and cabinet doors to monitor routine tasks and determine if a patient is having difficulty. Quarter-size motes, tiny wireless computers, connect disparate sensors embedded around the room. The motes contain tiny processors that gather and transmit the data to a central PC. If the system detects trouble, it will communicate wirelessly with a nearby digital device that can use a PC, television, radio, or cell phone to provide step-by-step audio and visual assistance from doctors or caregivers if required.

But doctors themselves have been a major obstacle to putting such systems in place. "Many of the systems that were available in the early days seemed to doctors to be slower and more cumbersome than simply handwriting a prescription," says Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of the Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates computerized prescribing. Just last year Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center delayed a computerized prescribing system because doctors protested it was too time-consuming. For a system to work, physicians must embrace it. "If it's not going to make life easier," Chief Information Officer Stettheimer says, "I don't want to put it out there."

That's where Wi-Fi could help. "It's indispensable," says Mark Maldia, an internist who has worked at St. Vincent's since last July. At another hospital he might spend an hour running from floor to floor to get an X-ray. Now he can download it in five minutes. Lab results come across as soon as they're ready, not hours later. And with his tablet PC, Maldia can show patients images of their broken bones or tumors. He can even compare new images to old ones. In March, Maldia became one of the first doctors at St. Vincent's to begin prescribing drugs by computer. His verdict? "It could be the biggest time-saver yet."

Unlike a fixed line service, a mobile phone usually has just one unique user who keeps the handset within reach throughout the day. A mobile phone, therefore, would make an ideal gateway between a range of wireless monitoring devices and a GSM or GPRS network. The report identifies technologies - such as wireless enabled scales and blood pressure monitors - that are essential for a mobile patient monitoring services. Health monitoring services would be used to monitor compliance with diets and healthcare plans and gather data prior to a patient's visit to their GP.

Though items have been auctioned over the Internet for years, experts say a surge in the popularity of online auction houses, such as eBay, and growing computer savvy among the general public has helped fuel hospitals' increased use of the technology. Observers say hospitals also are being forced to be more creative in finding new sources of donations.