An Israeli researcher has been awarded a grant of € 1.73 million by the EU under its Marie Curie Excellence programme for the development of an 'electronic nose' that can sniff out cancer.

On 16 November the European Commission launched 30 new eTen projects which will run over the next 3 years. These will validate and deploy electronic services in the public interest serving European citizens and businesses in areas including eHealth, eGovernment, eLearning, eInclusion, SME support, and Trust and Security.

The European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) has adopted, in a second reading, a set of comprise amendments on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which were agreed upon in informal meetings with the Council.

A new section on local support networks for prospective participants in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is now available on CORDIS, the EU's official information service on research, technological development and innovation.

An EU project team is developing a new platform for delivering flexible services on your chosen communications device. And the technologies employed read like a hit-parade of what's hot in hi-tech, the semantic web, intelligent agents, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and more.

An EU programme has been so successful in tackling illegal and harmful content on the internet that it is being used as a model by other regions of the world.

eHealth services promise to improve the quality and provision of care while reducing costs. However questions exist over the legal and regulatory implications for particular eHealth services. One initiative, 'Legally eHealth', aims to help remove those doubts.

There is little current information available about the legal implications of eHealth. However growing interest in and implementation of eHealth systems is certain to bring this topic to the fore. Hence the interest in the Legally eHealth study.