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Ethics group publishes opinion on nanomedicine

Addressing safety concerns related to advances in the nanomedicine field is of vital importance, according to the newly published "Opinion on the Ethical Aspects of Nanomedicine" from the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the heart allows making prognosis on heart attack

Doctors have always been struggling with the question whether their patients will get a heart attack in the near future. Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart might give them just that answer.

Commission grants EUR 2.8 million to cancer camera project

A European consortium has received a EUR 2.8 million grant from the European Commission to develop a camera that can be ingested to obtain images of the digestive tract.

Updated CORDIS service brings project partners together for FP7

With the launch of the new Seventh Framework Programme for research and development (FP7), a revamped Partners Service addresses the specific needs of potential participants and other users of CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service.

European scientists to develop healthcare robot

IWARD targets mainly hospitals and healthcare centres to overcome the shortages of healthcare staff - a major issue in European healthcare. Our aging society and economic pressure increase the patients-to-medics' ratio, having an adverse effect on healthcare quality and performance. Not being able to attend all patients at the right time and not keeping the hospitals clean enough (e.g. MRSA Transmission) also increases recovery time and cost.

The secret to Germany's FP6 success

Germany took the opportunity to look back at its impressive performance in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) as it held a national launch event for FP7 in Bonn on 15 and 16 January.

Germany is ranked first among all participating countries for FP6. The latest available statistics from the European Commission show 7,449 German participations in 3,027 FP6 contracts, with a total EU contribution to German participants of around 2.3 billion.

Study finds open source key to European ICT competitiveness

A new study on the economic impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) on the European information and communication technologies (ICT) sector has found that it could increase Europe's competitiveness.

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