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Brought to life by contemporary changes of our world, eHealth offers enormous possibili-ties. It is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communication technologies in support of health health-related fields, including healthcare services, health surveillance, health literature, and health education by the World Health Assembly resolution on eHealth. It is impossible to have a detailed view of its potential as eHealth affects the entire health sector and is a viable tool to provide routine as well as specialized health services. It is able to improve both the access to and the standard of healthcare. The aim of this paper is to focus on how eHealth can help in closing the gap between need and demand in healthcare and thus solving the healthcare dilemma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is there a contradiction between telemedicine and business? The driving forces in the telemedicine market are: competition within the health-care industry, newly developed cheap information technology (especially the Internet) and 21st-century health-care consumers, with their expectations of free choice and a high level of health-care. The market has four segments (citizens, patients, professionals and employees) and the boundaries between these segments are blurred. The telemedicine market is obviously growing, but it is still unstructured, fractured and disorganized. The telemedicine market needs a meeting place where the status of telemedicine and telecare can be reviewed. This would be a place in which to explore new ways to improve the efficiency of health-care services and a forum in which to draw a roadmap for future developments. One such place is the International Trade Event and Conference for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT, Med-e-Tel. At the 2004 event, there were 32 exhibitors from 23 countries and over 400 industry and medical participants. A survey of participants showed that the event was judged to be a success. There is no conflict between telemedicine and business. On the contrary, telemedicine is a promising area of business development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on a study, which examined the associations between three measures of tactile information processing and intelligence among middle-aged adults. Methodology used in the study; Examination of the three different tactile measures; Results of the study.

The article presents the first attempt to analyze data obtained simultaneously by the Russian BTN and Bulgarian R3DR instruments, flown in 2010 on the Zvezda module of the International space station (ISS). Both instruments have well established sensitivity against gamma radiation. This was verified in space, when the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16, initially docked to the aft port of the Zvezda module, was relocated to the zenith-facing port of the Poisk module on January 21, 2010. This maneuver brings a gamma ray source in the angle of view of both the BTN and R3DR instruments. The comparison of the data, after the relocation, for the first channels of the spectrometers reveals that they are elevated. This situation continues till March 18, 2010 when Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft was undocked from the ISS and landed. The final part of the paper, investigate the decrease of the R3DR instrument dose rates in the region of the South Atlantic anomaly (SAA), generated by the additional mass of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]