BrainyApp encourages brain health

BrainyApp, a new Australian iOS app, promotes a healthy lifestyle with the aim of staving off Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
 

Uni TV sends dental education into regional centre

The University of Melbourne is part of a project to demonstrate the use of IP TV to deliver professional and further education content around the state.
 

Victorian government puts health info in an app

A new iOS app delivers health and medical information from the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel.
 

Surgery streamed across the globe

The Australian medical community has taken another step forward with AARNET, Australia's Academic and Research Network, streaming a series of video demonstrations of gastrointestinal endoscopy techniques from Australia to countries in the Asia-Pacific.
 

Microsoft wants to help model the world

Microsoft has announced an ambitious project to help scientists, engineers and others create and run simulation models of real-world phenomena.
 

Intel’s brilliant medical ‘Health Guide’ launches in Australia

Aiming to dramatically improve in-home patient care, especially for the elderly and those with chronic illnesses, Intel’s new “Health Guide” will make a real difference in easing the burden on patients, nurses, doctors and the medical/hospital system and taking home health into the 21st century.
 

Telstra backs five external R&D projects

Over 200 research and development projects have been whittled down to a list of five that will receive assistance from Telstra.
 

IBM and University of Melbourne in life science collaboration

A collaboration between the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) and the IBM Research Computational Biology Center will see a Blue Gene supercomputer installed at the University of Melbourne.
 

Telstra puts blood glucose measurement online

Telstra's claiming an Australian first for its diabetes management online service.
 

NIH, Wikimedia work toward better online health and medical information

For the first time, the Wikimedia Foundation is working with a health sciences institution to improve the availability of online health and medical information.