The six-disc package of Teaching You Office covers tutorials for Microsoft’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access programs, as well as Windows itself.
 

Chris Kwak, a 31-year-old financial analyst, spends hours a day glued to the tiny screen of his Palm Treo hand-held computer. He fires off e-mails, checks stock prices and recently plowed through the novel \"The Da Vinci Code.\"

Robots make it possible for doctors to visually examine and communicate with patients, whether they are in another part of the hospital or even another part of the world.

Source: Reuters

LONDON - Science-fiction moved a step closer to reality on Wednesday when robots nicknamed "Sister Mary" and "Doctor Robbie" started work at a London hospital.

The pair allow doctors to visually examine and communicate with patients, whether they are in another part of the hospital or even another part of the world.

Nonprofit Web site MatchingDonors.com matches those in need of transplants with altruistic donors

By Catherine Arnst, BusinessWeek Online

The Internet can do more than help you find a date -- it can help you find a kidney. Since last October, MatchingDonors.com, a nonprofit Web site based in Canton, Mass., has been helping patients who desperately need a new liver or kidney find living donors who take altruism to a new level.

Investing in information technology is essential to the future of the American healthcare system, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said.

Source: Big News Network

Leavitt said the U.S. government should lead the way in adopting technology to boost both healthcare and the economy in the United States.

Painkillers Designed Especially for You?

Scientists Examine the Genetic Basis of Pain to Help Patients More Effectively

By ANDREW CHANG, Associated Press

May 11, 2005 -- As part of his research, Dr. Jeff Mogil scoops up lab mice, one at a time, into specially designed cardboard and cloth pockets and holds each of them over a vat of hot water.

The mice don't seem to have a problem getting in the pockets, Mogil said. "It's dark and smelly in there."

Virginia Beach - A United States medical school has received $24-million to finish testing a new contraceptive gel that may also fight HIV infection.

Source: Independent Online

The third phase of clinical trials - the last stage before possible US government approval - will be conducted in India and the African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Uganda and South Africa.

DOCTORS have warned that a new strain of highly drug-resistant HIV that leads to the rapid onset of Aids could find its way to Scotland.

By RICHARD GRAY, scotsman.com

Health officials in New York have discovered a man with a form of the virus that is resistant to three of the four drugs used to combat the disease.

Normally HIV can take up to 10 years before it develops into Aids, but the new strain damages the immune system at a far greater rate, so it becomes Aids within a couple of months.