Advances in healthcare have been boosted by the constant improvement of medical imaging technologies - for example, in terms of sensitivity and resolution. Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography are now widely used in the diagnosis and staging of many different diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. 
A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation of intelligent search engines. The life sciences community has built numerous databases - such as for gene sequencing and information about diseases - that are available to researchers as 'grid' services. 
Google.org has announced the expansion of Google Flu Trends to 16 additional countries, including Europe. The site now is available in 37 languages and it tracks flu-related search terms as an early predictor of flu trends.