Innovative technology deployed to help improve healthcare delivery and save lives.

Driven by the growing levels of pollutants in the environment, especially water contamination, world market for drinking & wastewater treatment chemicals is forecast to reach $22.4 billion by the year 2010. Limited drinking water supply, lack of access to safe drinking water, and the fact that 75-80% of health problems worldwide stem from polluted drinking water are all factors driving growth in the marketplace.

Health and privacy both got a boost today when Private MD Lab Services, Atlanta, announced its latest offering for completely anonymous testing for sexually transmitted diseases

Replikins Ltd. has found that H5N1 virus replikin peak gene counts in 2007 in Hong Kong, Russia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Israel indicate that a new replikin cycle has begun. The mean replikin count exceeded the maximum of the previous cycle identified by the company. Although several conditions are required to produce a pandemic, the increase in replikin count, a feature of each of the last three pandemics, is now in the range of the increase seen in the 1918 H1N1 pandemic.

UK travellers are being urged to arrange their antimalarial medication before they leave the country following alarming increases in either fake or poor quality malaria medicines in Southeast Asia and Africa.