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19. October 2019

Firefighters Now Safer in Flames as Coders Win Competition

A team of IT volunteers in Barcelona, Spain developed an armband device aimed at protecting firefighters, with sensors that monitor real-time temperature, smoke concentration and humidity, sending alerts to fire command centers to pull firefighters out of dangerous situations.

Health

14. October 2019

Scientists Trick Cheating Cancer Cells with Re-Programmed Bacteria

Scientists have recently succeeded in destroying tumors in mice through genetically reprogrammed bacteria. The new strategy could pave the way to cancer therapies that could treat the disease more accurately, with less side effects than current available treatments.

Health

Health

7. October 2019

Clean Your Cabinet to Help the Poor, Says Dubai Government

The Dubai Health Authority collects unused medications from residents as part of the Clean Your Cabinet campaign and provides the underprivileged community with medicines worth half a million UAE dirhams each month.

Society

Society

4. October 2019

More Poor Children Survive First 5 Years Than Ever Before

The mortality rate for children aged five and under has dropped from nearly 10 million deaths two decades ago to around half the amount in 2017 - even with the increase in world population by more than one billion people.

Health

10. September 2019

Our Next Generation Could Be Malaria-Free

41 scientists, economists and health experts have revealed in a major report that the planet can be forever free of malaria – one of the oldest and deadliest diseases – by the year 2050.