People often joke about doctors' illegible handwriting — but it's no laughing matter for the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety, which has launched a "do not use" list of symbols and abbreviations ...

Electronic mail and Internet newsgroups are very efficient at sending digital text, and their asynchronous nature makes them valuable communications tools. However, both share one glaring fault: Their ...

Are you left bewildered by the alphabet soup of abbreviatiosn and slang used on Twitter and other popular Internet watering holes? Lucky for you, the FBI had the same problem — and put together a ...

Pretty soon, the incomprehensible prescription notes written by doctors may make sense to you, thanks to a new system developed by the students of Don Bosco Engineering College which deciphers ...