Aegate, the drug authentication business, will move into Ireland in January, strengthening its position ahead of expected EU legislation to fight the growing threat of counterfeit drugs.
Author Archives: Paul Rodgers
Millions at risk from fake medicines smuggled into UK
2 November, 2008 – 00:00
Packets of fake pills are being smuggled into high-street chemists and sold as real medicines that prevent heart attacks or fight cancer, putting the lives of millions of British patients at risk.
It took 20-20 vision to see nothing sells like specs
3 August, 2008 – 00:00
Dame Mary Perkins tells how special deals and stylish frames have made Specsavers an unlikely high-street star
Dame Mary Perkins adamantly denies she’s the Imelda Marcos of spectacles. Unlike the former first lady of the Philippines, who had 1,060 pairs of shoes in her wardrobe by the time her husband was deposed, Dame Mary insists she [...]
The beating heart of the hi-tech world in hospitals
1 June, 2008 – 00:00
The computerisation of the NHS is not on its sickbed – it’s alive and kicking, explains the boss of GE Healthcare
Nigel Mason is apologetic when he arrives at GE’s British head office in Berkeley Square, central London. This isn’t his building, explains the boss of GE Healthcare UK as we wait for security to sign [...]
Goggles return as TV and film go 3-D
13 April, 2008 – 10:42
A whole range of new films are being made as the new wave of 3D cinema allows such realism to be created on much lower budgets than in the past
Once 3D entertainment meant fumbling aroundwith a pair of multi-coloured spectacles that made you dizzy, before settling down in the cinema to watch a plotless film [...]
Now that’s reality TV: Samsung takes us into the next dimension
13 April, 2008 – 00:00
The Korean giant is going back to the future to create 3D vision that will propel golf balls from your screen
‘Fore!” When Tiger Woods smashes the ball straight for their heads, most people flinch – some duck – until the point-of-view pulls back to show trees hurtling past along the fairway. The simulacrum of the [...]
Inbreeding ‘causing rise in birth defects’
10 February, 2008 – 00:00
Inbreeding in Britain’s Pakistani community is causing a surge in birth defects, environment minister Phil Woolas warned last night. Mr Woolas described the issue as “the elephant in the room” – too sensitive for anyone to mention.
Bill Gates: The hi-tech future is now
6 January, 2008 – 00:00
It’s notoriously difficult to predict trends, as Bill Gates has discovered to his cost. But, as the Microsoft boss opens the Consumer Electronics Show, what should we be looking out for?
Gannon and Gage Swanston are already pioneers of the 21st-century media era at the tender ages of seven and four. When they visit friends’ homes, [...]
Wind-fuelled ’supergrid’ offers clean power to Europe
25 November, 2007 – 00:00
5,000-mile network could cut entire continent’s carbon output by a quarter
An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe’s CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
The saint factory: More and more go marching in
8 April, 2007 – 10:51
As moves to canonise Pope John Paul II accelerate, questions are being asked about the alacrity with which the Vatican hands out the halos
Being saintly is never easy. In the early days of Christianity, the holy faced persecution by the superpower of the day and were likely to be killed in imaginative ways: fed to [...]
