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How to Prevent Cancer in the Future

Many people believe that getting cancer is purely down to genes. And more than a quarter of people recently surveyed in the UK put it down to fate. While the idea of cancer scares most of us, it seems...

Healthcare Challenge: To Heal or Die

From the TV show, “House”, the irascible but brilliant Doctor House tells a class of med students that they will make mistakes and they will lose lives and that they better get used to it or either find another...

Telehealth: a keystone for future healthcare delivery

Telehealth is now being mainstreamed by PCTs across the country in order to prevent avoidable hospital admissions to hospital and monitor long-term needs within the home. The increasingly widespread use of telehealth solutions is also transforming the ability to...

Science and Technology in Clinical Sterilization.

There has been a growing understanding of the microbial threats that exist in laboratory & medical practice as of today. Simultaneously these threatening trends have been accompanied by a tremendous advance in the science and technology of in-clinic sterilization. There...

Lab-on-chip traces circulating tumor cells

Imagine a medical laboratory performing a genetic test to detect metastasis from blood in a breast cancer patient. Shrink this laboratory down to an area of 1x1cm² and you have a lab-on-chip. The tools in the real-life lab are...

eHealth And Emerging Rich Web Technologies

Finland is a Nordic country with a population of 5.3 million inhabitants. The country is famous for a good system for healthcare and social welfare, which is based on extensive public responsibility and tax funding1. The vision for 2015...

Fullerene Nanomedicines for Medical and Healthcare Applications

Nanotechnology is the creation of useful, functional materials, devices, and systems through controlling and manipulating matter at the molecular level. It is a multidisciplinary field undergoing exponential growth with broad applications among all pisions of science. Fullerenes are a...

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