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  • Article · 2009

    Ageing: How to stop getting old

    Scientific research into ageing. Can we stop getting old? Pharmaceutical company anti-ageing products. Market research into anti-aging.

    17 April 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Could human race become extinct?

    Dying out of human race? Why World Health Organisation is concerned about risks from mutation of wild viruses such as Swine Flu.

    17 April 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Gene Tests for Insurance

    Why gene screening for insurance will be allowed to prevent fraud against life insurance companies.

    17 April 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Acet: AIDS care, HIV prevention and training in 23 nations

    ACET is an international AIDS agency working in 23 countries to help prevent transmission of HIV (including mother to child transmission), …

    24 March 2009
  • Video · 2009

    Swine Flu Virus Death toll less than feared Possible global pandemic?

    Death toll less then feared from Swine flu virus - outbreak in Mexico, US, Canada and ? UK. Risk of global pandemic?

    4 March 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Swine Flu: "Pandemic imminent" says WHO

    30 April 2009: WHO has raised the alert over Swine Flu to Level 5 - only one step short of a full pandemic. Two days ago they announced Lev…

    30 January 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Swine Flu: race to prevent pandemic

    Our world is right on the brink of an unstoppable global pandemic - whether or not this occurs will probably become clear within the next 2…

    29 January 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Swine Fever: Urgent

    Here is the full press release on Swine Flu from the Lancet medical journal. It highlights the vital role that governments need to take, an…

    28 January 2009
  • Article · 2009

    Swine Flu Mexico shutdown

    Comment in early days of Mexico Swine Flu epidemic in 2009: Research suggests that the virus causing Swine Flu (H1N1) may turn out to be qu…

    1 January 2009
  • Video · 2008

    Swine Flu: Global Pandemic Threat

    Governments teams are meeting in emergency sessions around the world to plan urgent responses to Swine Flu Virus (H1N1) after over 1,600 ca…

    27 December 2008
  • Video · 2008

    Future of Health Care

    2002 Lecture by Dr Patrick Dixon, ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 2005).

    17 November 2008
  • Video · 2008

    Cloning dead people?

    Mice have been successfully cloned from another mouse which died 16 years ago, whose intact body was frozen at minus 20 degrees centigrade …

    4 November 2008

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