Welcome to Healthcare Robots. The following video is about an emerging healthcare robot. RI-MAN is the world's first robot designed for lifting and carrying humans. A variety of sensors, including flexible tactile sensor sheets, provide RI-MAN with a sense of vision, hearing, touch, and smell.

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Ninh Thuan: Maternal and child healthcare services improved (Nhân Dân)

Deputy Health Minister Tran Chi Liem and UNICEF chief representative Jesper Morch have led a working team to southern coastal Ninh Thuan province to supervise the operation of UN-funded children and reproductive healthcare projects in the province.


Healthcare overhaul could limit tax breaks on benefits (Boston Globe)

WASHINGTON - For the secretaries and environmental engineers, game wardens and van drivers who work for the state of New Hampshire, surgery is free, even at Boston’s top teaching hospitals if it’s necessary. So are MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays.


Poll: Affordable healthcare needed (Lehigh Acres Citizen)

A poll released this past week by the nation's largest union is exposing some of its member's discontentment with the current health care system as legislators in Washington work on healthcare reform.


Seattle Sutton Urges More Focus on Prevention to Tackle Obesity in Healthcare Reform (redOrbit)

OTTAWA, Ill., July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seattle Sutton, healthy eating expert, urges Congress and President Obama to focus more on prevention in the pending healthcare reform to battle skyrocketing obesity rates which put strain on our ailing healthcare system and will continue to further stretch the broken system unless the problem is addressed now. The newly issued report F as in Fat: ...


Seattle Sutton Urges More Focus on Prevention to Tackle Obesity in Healthcare Reform (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

Seattle Sutton, healthy eating expert, urges Congress and President Obama to focus more on prevention in the pending healthcare reform to battle skyrocketing obesity rates which put strain on our ailing healthcare system and will continue to further stretch the broken system unless the problem is addressed now.


Jack Hidary: Healthcare in Crisis - Zeke and Gerard Weigh In - Live from Aspen (The Huffington Post)

-- "Cuba is doing better on some cancers that the US" -- Technology is responsible for 50% of the increase in healthcare costs -- NOT...


Research and Markets: Future IT Trends and Projects: Healthcare Technology in India (Industry Focus) (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Future IT Trends and Projects: Healthcare Technology in India " report to their offering.


Omega Healthcare secures new credit facility (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Real estate investment trust Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. said Thursday it secured a $200 million revolving line of credit, which will be used for acquisitions and general corporate purposes.


Obama praises sweeping healthcare bill (UPI)

WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama praised Senate legislation Thursday that would include government-run healthcare as part of a sweeping $611 billion reform plan.


Potomac Hospital to Merge With Norfolk-Based Sentara Healthcare (Washington Post)

Potomac Hospital plans to merge with Norfolk-based Sentara Healthcare to meet the demands of the community in a tough economic time, hospital officials said.



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