National Health Service

UK patients able to get health advice via free iPhone medical app, review of NHS Direct app

Dec 06, 2011 by
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The UK’s National Health Service releases an iPhone app giving residents access to a symptom checker with follow-up recommendations, location services, and more.

The UK’s National Health Service Takes its War on Smoking to a New Front: The iPhone

Mar 11, 2010 by
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Smoking is an addiction – that’s something we all know. But the chemical addiction, i.e. the biochemical dependence that develops in a person’s brain, has been curable for quite some time. Drugs like Bupropion, Chantix, and the various forms of nicotine replacement are all pretty effective at tying a person over as their body withdraws from the nicotine they had been filling their lungs with for years or decades. What has been the bane of patients and healthcare providers alike [Read more]