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Find Ashya now! Police push for a web mobilization

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…

Is sugar causing the obesity 'epidemic'?

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…

New products and solutions at PrevenRio 2014

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,…

Combined Pill may raise breast cancer risk

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…