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A robotic policeman which can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai's police force and will patrol busy areas in the city, as part of a government programme aimed

The Democratic Republic of Congo has given the green light to an experimental vaccine to combat an ongoing Ebola outbreak. While the vaccine is not licensed, it has shown promising signs in a

ANRS 12286 MOBIDIP(1), a clinical trial running in parallel in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and Senegal), shows that dual therapy with lamivudine and a

Le monde compte encore environs 36,7 millions de personnes infectées par le virus du sida. Cette maladie, qui se présente comme l'une des plus dangereuses de la terre, n'a jusqu'à présent pas reçu de traitement complet. Chaque année, les espoirs des laboratoires sont indiqués, mais le virus est encore résistant.

Ambulances in Stockholm, Sweden will soon be able to interrupt in-car music to make sure motorists are always aware an emergency vehicle is nearby. The system transmits a radio signal from the emergency vehicle to nearby FM tuners equipped with

It’s a new day on the internet so there’s a new conspiracy theory: a mysterious new pyramid has been discovered in Antarctica thanks to Google Earth.

Researchers have developed a new kind of synthetic creature, using the heart cells of a rat to make a robotic stingray that follows light. While the rat-ray hybrid certainly sounds like a bit of a Frankenstein mish-mash, it's serious research that could help pave the way for a greater understanding of how hearts pump blood around the body – in addition to leading to new kinds of more sophisticated synthetic robots.

The nation's first penis transplant has been performed at Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital announced today. Earlier this month during a 15-hour procedure, surgeons connected the intricate vascular and nerve structures of a donor penis with those of the 64-year-old transplant recipient. The patient is recovering well, the hospital said in a press release. The procedure was performed by a surgical team led by Curtis Cetrulo and Dickens Ko. MGH is hosting a news conference this morning "to discuss this surgical milestone and the promise this technique holds for helping patients with devastating genitourinary injuries and disease," spokesman Noah R. Brown said. Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Halifax, Mass., underwent the 15-hour transplant operation on May 8 and 9. “I want to go back to being who I was,” Manning, who had lost his penis to cancer, told the Times in an interview in his hospital room. He said he felt well and had experienced hardly a...

A young Cameroonian engineer has come up with a tool that could help reduce both maternal death and child mortality rates. The free application, called 'GiftedMom', sends women texts containing medical advice before and after their child is born. On March 13, Cameroon was shaken by the death of Monique Koumaté , a pregnant woman who died in front of the Laquintinie hospital in Douala. Several hundred people subsequently gathered to protest against the hospital's employees, who they accused of neglect. But Koumaté's case isn't unique. According to a study carried out by the World Health Organisation, in 2011 Cameroon's maternal mortality rate stood at 782 deaths for every 100,000 births, a figure well above the global average. In developing countries, the average rate stands at 239 deaths for every 100,000 live births, whereas in developed countries the figure is 12 deaths per 100,000 live births. Those grim statistics were enough to ...