This article will profile the logical progression of mobile technologies such as the cellular phone toward ubiquitous, multipurpose devices that can perform significant functions similar to the fictional tricorder featured in Star Trek© series and films. Within the context, the domain of telemedicine and related applications for remote data access and analysis implies ramifications that […]
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It is decided, even jurors: the African Development Bank (AfDB) finally returned to Abidjan after spending 11 years in a temporary headquarters in Tunis. Its president, Donald Kaberuka made the announcement Tuesday at a press conference. “The security conditions are sufficient to settle permanently “ , he has reassured before announcing “the holding of first board Sept.
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Young techies hunched over laptops in small offices across Africa want to create their own versions of California’s Silicon Valley and some are beginning to attract investors prepared to take a risk in the hope of high returns. One such start-up, a South African social photography app called Over, last month beat 19 others from
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Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists who specialize in the disease. Assuming they are correct, and if those people can be identified, they could be a great help in fighting the outbreak. Immune persons could safely tend the sick
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The giant robotic policemen are preventing accidents – and racketeering by dishonest officials. Drivers in gridlocked Kinshasa want them everywhere: two giant robots in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a metropolis of 10 million people with a considerable traffic problem. The giant robotic policemen are preventing accidents – and racketeering by dishonest
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Two potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November and would first be given to health care workers most at risk of exposure to the disease there, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. The organization also announced that blood from recovered Ebola patients and serums
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Sonia Sotomayor Speaks to Immigrant Justice Corps The fresh-faced lawyers included refugees from violence and persecution in Central America, as well as the grandchildren of refugees from Eastern Europe. They arrived at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan, on Thursday in similar shades of gray and black suits, poised
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Maputo — “Your granary will never be filled by your neighbour.” This is a Mozambican saying that was used by Graca Michel, member of International Panel of Elders and a former Mozambican minister of education, to illustrate the point that Africa cannot rely on outside help to achieve food security.
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At the IFA electronics show, CEO Boo-Keun Yoon promised safer, healthier, and more energy-efficient homes and said the transformation will come as fast as smartphones did. Today, you might think of Samsung as the company that made your phone, your TV, or your washing machine. Tomorrow, if it gets its way, it’ll be the company
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first of an eagerly awaited new class of cancer drugs that unleashes the body’s immune system to fight tumors. The drug, which Merck will sell under the name Keytruda, was approved for patients with advanced melanoma who have exhausted other therapies.
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