Stories about: World Health Organization

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    Judge says no to posters, stickers in cell retailers 28/10/2011 10:04:55

    The city of San Francisco can't make retailers display signs and stickers with information about cellphone health risks, but it can require retailers to give customers an information sheet about it, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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    Cell phones don't increase cancer risk, new study says 22/10/2011 01:22:00

    A Danish study that monitored 350,000 cell phone users over an 18-year period found no link between mobile phone subscriptions and an increased risk of cancer.
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    Toyota system can sense pedestrians, avoid accidents 22/07/2011 19:17:18

    Toyota has developed a safety system that can automatically stop a car in the moments before a collision with a pedestrian.
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    Cell phones and cancer: 8 precautions worth taking 07/06/2011 02:49:00

    The good thing about being an adult is you get to make your own decisions. The bad thing? You get to make your own decisions - and live with the consequences.
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    Bluetooth touts itself as the cancer-free wireless tech 02/06/2011 06:31:00

    If you're worried that your cellphone might be giving you cancer, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has a solution for you: Use Bluetooth.
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    Microsoft has a change of heart on how to keep Internet safe 16/02/2011 07:39:00

    Should ISPs be the ones who keep hacked PCs off the Internet? Microsoft's chief security executive used to think so, but now he's had a change of heart.
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    Bill Gates gives another $100M to fund polio vaccination 02/02/2011 22:59:32

    Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is increasing his foundation's commitment to the fight against polio, as the disease increasingly appears on the verge of eradication.
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    Microsoft exposes scope of botnet threat 16/10/2010 05:12:00

    Microsoft this week unveiled the ninth volume of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR). The semi-annual assessment of the state of computer and Internet security and overview of the threat landscape generally yields some valuable information. This particular edition of the Security Intelligence Report focuses its attention on the threat posed by botnets.
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    MIT app uses mobile phone to determine eyeglass prescription 29/06/2010 03:22:00

    MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a mobile-phone application that, coupled with a small plastic device held over the screen, can determine users' eyeglass prescriptions. Called NETRA or near-eye tool for refractive assessment, the system asks users to align lines on the phone's screen while looking through a small plastic cube.
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    No simple solution to Foxconn suicides 26/05/2010 02:17:00

    Two recent Foxconn worker suicides, the ninth and 10th this year, present a harsh reality to the Chinese electronics manufacturer and its American tech partners, including Apple, Dell, and HP: fixing the problem will be difficult, if not impossible.
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    Deadline for e-health rollout may do more harm than help 02/03/2010 07:12:00

    Hospitals and physicians in the U.S. have until 2015 to deploy comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) and the accompanying technology to meet federal guidelines and qualify for billions of dollars in reimbursements. But some health care experts are concerned that the quality of e-health systems might be at risk because of unrealistic deadlines and confusion about what to do first.
 
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