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General Electric and Intel will be jointly investing 250 million dollars in an effort to develop and market home health technologies to patients with chronic conditions. Their goal is to create products which will help patients and their physicians to manage their conditions from the comfort of their homes. The companies estimate that the market for such products will grow from the current 3 billion US dollars to 7.7 billion by 2021. Some of the issues they hope to tackle include diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiovascular diseases and fall prevention.

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In this month’s issue of the Archives of Dermatology researchers noted that common skin diseases can lead to poor morale and combat ineffectiveness of troops on the front line. Poor control and misdiagnosis of common, benign conditions such as itchy rashes, eczema, psoriasis, non-cancerous moles can often lead to evacuation of troops for evaluation and treatment. The study authors say that measures such as identification of individuals with chronic skin diseases during medical screening before they are deployed and emphasizing preventive measures to clinicians in the field can reduce the number of evacuations. Teledermatolgy may someday play a role as well, allowing physicians with dermatological expertise to visually examine soldiers remotely.

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