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  • Connected liner keeps pressure sores at bay

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    French start-up Gaspard has developed a connected intelligent liner pad, which uses a system of sensors to help prevent pressure sores for wheelchair users, people of reduced mobility or patients hospitalized for long periods of time. Morgan Lavaux, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who developed this innovative product, was himself the victim of an accident that left…

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    French start-up Gaspard has developed a connected intelligent liner pad, which uses a system of sensors to help prevent pressure sores for wheelchair users, people of reduced mobility or patients hospitalized for long periods of time. Morgan Lavaux, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who developed this innovative product, was himself the victim of an accident that left…

  • J&J makes takeover approach for Swiss drugmaker Actelion: Bloomberg

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    (Reuters) – U.S. healthcare company Johnson & Johnson has approached Swiss biotechnology firm Actelion Ltd about a potential takeover, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter. The report said deliberations were still at an early stage following Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) initial offer, and Actelion was working with an…

  • Knife-wielding attacker wounds seven children in China

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    A knife-wielding man on Friday wounded seven children and two bystanders outside a primary school in northwestern China, state media said, in the latest mass knifing attack. Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries, but there has been a series of knife and ax attacks in recent years, many targeting children.…

  • Italian fertility doctor under arrest for eggs ‘theft’

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    A controversial Italian gynaecologist famed for helping women in their 60s to have children is under house arrest in Rome on suspicion of removing eggs from a patient's ovaries without her consent. Lawyers for Severino Antinori, who has been nicknamed the “grandmothers' obstetrician,” dismissed the charges as absurd and claimed Saturday that their client had…

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    A controversial Italian gynaecologist famed for helping women in their 60s to have children is under house arrest in Rome on suspicion of removing eggs from a patient's ovaries without her consent. Lawyers for Severino Antinori, who has been nicknamed the “grandmothers' obstetrician,” dismissed the charges as absurd and claimed Saturday that their client had…

  • Rugby league-St Helens ‘outraged’ by Hohaia concussion claims

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    English rugby league club St Helens have reacted with “astonishment and outrage” at allegations by former New Zealand international Lance Hohaia that they told him to play while experiencing symptoms of concussions. Hohaia was the victim of the most savage attack ever seen at a Super League Grand Final in 2014 when Wigan’s Ben Flowers…

  • Rugby league-St Helens ‘outraged’ by Hohaia concussion claims

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    English rugby league club St Helens have reacted with “astonishment and outrage” at allegations by former New Zealand international Lance Hohaia that they told him to play while experiencing symptoms of concussions. Hohaia was the victim of the most savage attack ever seen at a Super League Grand Final in 2014 when Wigan’s Ben Flowers…

  • Fourth person dies of Ebola in latest flare up in Guinea

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    A fourth person has died of Ebola in Guinea in the latest flare up of an epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people in that country, Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013 but now claims few victims. “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is dead,” said Fode…