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A government agency under the auspices of the Ministry of Climate and Environment, the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) is Norway’s main institution for research, environmental monitoring and topographic and geological mapping in Norwegian polar regions. The Institute also advises Norwegian authorities on matters concerning polar environmental management and runs...

Health expenditure has reached above 10% of the gross domestic product in most Western countries with an upward trend indicating that 20% may already be reached in the present decade, unless something drastic can turn the tide (1). Prevention is the vision, but many such efforts remain to translate...

In the past, those born both deaf and blind were consigned to a life of limited or non-existent communications – but a research team based at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands in close collaboration with the Royal Dutch Kentalis Deafblindness Center for Excellence – is developing new techniques...

“Central nervous system diseases are on their way to become as abandoned as infectious diseases, in spite of the enormous need for new treatments to reduce the suffering and the huge societal costs handling these diseases.” Appropriate drug delivery to the brain is one of the main hurdles for treating...

The true value of an apprenticeship can only be fully appreciated if we are able to fully explain how it works and why so many organisations across the public and private sector have taken this pathway as part of their post-recession recovery and sustainability strategies. At the heart of...

Animal models play an essential role in the development of new medicines, vaccines and therapies for the benefit of human health. Within animal models for biomedical research, non-human primates belong to a special group. The use of these highly developed animals needs specific attention. The use of animals in...

Medical evacuation is a chain of activities to bring injured, ill or contagious persons from the scene of the accident or their location to the treating/specialist hospital. Nodin Aviation assists our customers to create and keep a strong chain by developing specialized role equipment for CASEVAC and MEDEVAC.

Network organisations provide knowledge workers collaborating on reaching a common goal with some computer-mediated communication facility, linking them across boundaries to interact and exchange information. The most popular is email – combining simple textual messaging with a possibility to disseminate attachments with just one click to one or multiple...

GNB® Industrial Power, a division of Exide Technologies, is one of the world’s leading producers of lead-acid batteries for industrial applications such as renewable energy, telecommunication systems, railways, uninterrupted power supply (UPS), fork lift trucks and electric vehicles.

Animal by-products (ABP) are an important and potentially valuable aspect of the livestock food production chain and are described in many parts of the world as the “Fifth Quarter”. This description relates to the fact that many animals slaughtered for food (meat) are split into four quarters as part of...

The European Cyber Security Protection Alliance is a results oriented initiative set up by 17 organisations active in ICT. Operating as a European project from October 2012 to March 2015, CYSPA is using this opportunity as the seed funding to launch an Alliance with a goal of self-sustainability beyond the...

According to a Public Health England (PHE) North West Mental Wellbeing Survey, significant changes in key factors can influence mental wellbeing. The PHE survey found that whilst there has been an increase in people within the region reporting to be in ‘very good’ health (increase of 18.2%), and more people with...

Fresh action announced to protect forests and reduce green house emissions at COP19. Key international partners came together in Warsaw to announce fresh action via pledging $280 million to sustain the world’s forests. Via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) international partners aim to reduce Green House Gas...

Understanding liver cancer development in Europe: Novel mouse models for pre-clinical trials. Today, liver cancer – also called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) – reflects the 3rd most common cause for cancer related death world-wide with approximately 800.000 deaths per year. In stray African or Asian countries HCC has become the most common...

Biomolecular Sciences: driving industrial biotechnology Microorganisms are bustling with chemistry. In fact, they are the richest and most diverse reservoirs of chemical activities on our planet. Their activity is essential to sustain the elemental cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulphur. Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute explain their involvement.

Biobank networks set to multiply the access to the key resources for biomedical sciences. The systematic examination of human samples in combination with their medical data over the last centuries has established the basis for the growing progress in medical sciences. This has led to the dramatic increase in knowledge...

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Community services play a vital role in tackling growing A&E services pressures say UK health and social care provider. Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust called for more focus on the part community services play in keeping people out of hospital. Speaking in response to the National Audit Office’s report into...

Clifford Warwick, Senior Scientific Consultant for the Emergent Disease Foundation examines the links between zoonotic pathogens and human disease. Introduction Whether priceless personal ‘friends’, hobbyists’ favoured fancies, or simply delivering big bucks to animal dealers, pets have long been a fixture of society. Key among the numerous human benefits is companionship, although...

Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, sometimes referred to as “breakbone fever”. “Classic” dengue is an excruciatingly painful illness with high fever, agonizing bone, muscle and eye pain and an intensely-itching rash that can extend from the head to the soles of the feet. The acute phase...