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BY MARK ROWE
AT the start of the 21st century, technology appears set to revolutionise health care in the same way as the discovery of anaesthesia, antiseptics and penicillin. And this is about far more than computer systems that make waiting lists more efficient or advances in keyhole surgery.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has created a new electronic library simplifying access to more than 1,000 of the UN agency’s publications on work place issues. This ILO Insight archive covers issues including labour, employment, social protection, women at work, occupational safety and health, child labour, management, training, labour statistics and more.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments are often jealous of attempts by the European Union (EU) to increase its power into policy areas that they consider none of its business. Defence and foreign affairs are obvious examples, but health is another. EU member states have long resisted Brussels’ calls for influence over their health policies, but their resolve has weakened of late.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE of the first applications of plastics nanotechnology in the field of ballistic materials was shown to delegates at the conference Advanced Technologies in Crime Prevention and Detection organised by the Institute of Nanotechnology in London earlier this month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH holding company Candover has welcomed the European Commission clearing its sale of French and Italian frozen food chain Picard to another investment vehicle BC Partners for more than Euro 1.3 billion. The sale brings Candover a 2.7-times return on its 2001 acquisition of Picard in 2001, when it bought the chain from French retailer Carrefour in 2001 for Euro 920 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has called on emerging market eastern European and central Asian governments not to slavishly follow the priorities of United Nations’ (UN) millennium development goals for health in their region. A new report says these targets “do not address fully the main causes of poor health in Europe and Central Asia, where high burdens of heart disease, lung cancer and injuries reduce life expectancy in many countries”.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT first sight they would appear to be uneasy bedfellows. On the one hand, English Heritage, the British government’s advisory body with responsibility for the care and maintenance of the country’s historic environment; on the other, the Marxist-led government of the Indian state of West Bengal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has its critics, heaven knows, but the renewable energy industry is rarely among them. Brussels likes green electricity production and is prepared to fund it. This is important as the EU has large budgets, as every Eurosceptic likes to point out.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The fact that some member states have now missed the deadline for implementation coupled with variation in the measures passed means that there will be “an imbalance of obligations on lawyers across the EU” said the American Bar Association’s Section on Business Law (SBL).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL web being cast by the European Union (EU) in the fight against money laundering is being tightened still further. A third directive has now been proposed by the European Commission that, among other things, will broaden the definition of money laundering to include not only the concealment or disguise of the proceeds of serious crimes but also the financing of terrorism with either criminal or legally acquired money.…