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Health and FP7: Opportunities for UK participants

The UK's FP6 National Contact Point is holding a series of three workshops around the country to discuss opportunities for collaborative research and development in the field of health in the forthcoming Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

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Siemens Group Forms the World's First Full Service Diagnostics

Siemens has been given the green light to acquire the diagnostics division of Bayer Healthcare without restrictions. The approval was granted yesterday by the European Commission, following the earlier approval by U.S. antitrust authorities at the beginning of October. This follows the acquisition of the U.S. firm Diagnostic Products Corporation (DPC), which was completed at the end of July.

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Global Health Care Expansion Congress

4th-5th December 2006
In partnership with CNBC Arabiya, International Society for Telemedicine & e-Health, International Hospital Equipment and Solutions, Middle East Health, The Medicine Publishing Company, ArabMedicare.com, Hospital Post Europe, naseba, the global executive event organizer, is presenting the Global Health Care Expansion Congress, taking place at the JW Marriott, Dubai, UAE.

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IST project seeks to improve online news delivery

Researchers working on an EU-funded project have developed a new set of semantic Web tools which they claim will help users find the online news that matters to them most, more quickly.

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Internet must remain the driver for democracy and economic development

The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) begins yesterday in Athens. It is an important milestone agreed last November at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (WSIS) as part of the drive to internationalise internet governance, to safeguard freedom online and to bridge the global digital divide.

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Semantic-web technologies for enhanced knowledge management

Effective knowledge management is key to navigating the sea of information being made available using internet technologies. And participants in the IST project SEKT aim to lay the foundations for that greater effectiveness, by developing three core technologies for the semantic web.

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New website leads the way in raising awareness of RFID

A new website launched by Informationsforum RFID aims to educate German consumers about the possible applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) in everyday life and consumer products.

Users can click on any category, ranging from 'refrigerator' to 'children' and 'mobile phones' to 'medicine' to read a short passage on how RFID is affecting people's lives in these areas.

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EU project starts work on world's largest dyslexia databank

A new EU-funded project is aiming to create the world's largest databank on dyslexia. Dyslexia is a common learning disorder that affects at least 5% of school children in Europe. The range and severity of the problem varies widely, but the main areas of difficulty are reading, writing, spelling, numeracy, personal organisation and time-keeping.

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New software method for producing medical guidelines

Medical guidelines that lay down state-of-the-art rules for doctors are an important tool in modern medical practice. But though the number of guideline documents has proliferated in recent years, the quality, clarity and overall usefulness of the texts could be improved, resulting in even greater benefit to patients and medical practitioners.

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MEDICA 2006: the electronic health card faces its first test

Patients with state health insurance were originally expected to receive their electronic health cards at the start of the year. Despite the delays, however, there is hope. Those wishing to get an impression of the card's capabilities will find what they're looking for in the IT sections of the MEDICA 2006, the world's largest medical trade fair, where the electronic health card once again promises to be a major topic of discussion.

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