Health

Thanks to an international team of researchers, Ebola outbreak has a real-time coverage on the scientific community. MSF and the other ONG follow the spread of the outbreak, by sequencing the virus’ genome from people in Sierra Leone. Now…

British Police have launched a web mobilization with a social media campaing to find Ashya King, a sick 5-years-old boy, with a brain tumour, taken from the Southampton General Hospital by his parents, without any kind of consention from…

The XStat is a first-in-kind hemostatic device for the treatment of gunshot and shrapnel wounds on the battlefield. XStat works by injecting a group of small, rapidly-expanding sponges into a wound cavity using a syringe-like applicator.…

LIBERIA – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is rapidly scaling up its presence in all the country where Ebola outbreak is a national problem. The organization have a new operation centre in Liberia, to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.…

Sugar hit the headlines last week when the Daily Mail and The Independent led with the quote “Sugar is the new tobacco”. Many news outlets focused on a reported link between high sugar consumption and the rise inobesity and diabetes. The…

The most important technologies about rescue and emergency have been exposed in Brazil, at the PrevenRio Expo in Rio de Janeiro. Professionals and international buyers had a direct touch with research and development of new products,…

CHARLES BOMBARDIER on The Globe and Mail Our Prototypes column introduces new vehicle concepts and presents visuals from designers who illustrate the ideas. Some of them will be extensions of existing concepts, others will be new, some will…

Kinshasa, 26 August 2014 - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a response to the confirmed Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The combined pill contains oestrogen and, as it is known oestrogen can stimulate breast cancer cells to grow, the potential for extra oestrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer has been recognised for some time. However, any increase…

(SKY) - A massive clean-up operation is underway after a powerful earthquake rocked California's scenic Napa Valley wine country, leaving more than 130 injured. The 6.0-magnitude quake struck early on Sunday morning - the strongest tremor…