[Healthcare]

In recent times, we've heard how doctors in remote areas of the world make successful surgeries and diagnoses with the help of the Internet, and we've also seen “hacks” of certain mobile phones to detect disease in blood samples. It looks like the medical world will continue going through some big changes down the line. Just last week, a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from a man's kidney was actually tweeted from the operating room into the Internet.

With the iPhone 3G still firmly in top spot and Apple loyalists coming up with newer and better Apps for it, it would seem that the current craze is simply about how to make smartphones more useful than they already are. But is there a way to make cellphone modifications that can actually save lives?

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong recently issued a series of open letters to Barack Obama, asking the President-elect to step up the fight against cancer as he had promised during his campaign. Now it's Microsoft founder Bill Gates who's expressing his ideas to next US President, particularly on a broad stimulus package and foreign aid. It would seem that Obama has a whole lot to live up to beginning January 20, 2009.

Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor, recently issued an open letter to US President-elect Barack Obama. In it, he outlined the problems faced by the American cancer community and how Obama, in his presidency, can help solve them. Armstrong's request will definitely resonate with much of America and the rest of the world – in America alone, he claims, 1,500 people die from the disease each day.

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is a charitable organization that aims to promote and raise funds for translational cancer research through the media. It's run by Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), and one of its main goals is to raise awareness about the disease. It was established on May 28 this year by media, entertainment, and philantrophic leaders affected by cancer.