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Maryam Heidaripour, a design student from Iran, demonstrates a hijab that glows in the dark, designed to prevent road traffic accidents. Each year in Iran, 25,000 people are killed in roadside accidents...

20,000 African people travel to India every year for hospital treatment they can’t get at home, so an Indian company decided to set up a hospital in Nigeria. The hospital, staffed by...

Policemen are usually the first people on the scene of an accident so a project in India is training them to deal with accident trauma. With over three million kilometres of roads...

An animal welfare organisation in India is sterilising and vaccinating dogs to help reduce the spread of rabies. There are 28 million stray dogs in the country, which contributes a huge risk...

Scientists at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have discovered a way to change the colour of silk worms and the silk that they spin. A special chemical dye is...

Health experts in India have come up with a new way of delivering health education – through a Bollywood TV soap. To encourage people to use toilets, for example, producers have dramatised...

Around the world, six million people seek medical help each year for burns. These patients often spend long periods in hospital, up to a month in the most serious cases. One reason...

Doctors in the UK are tailoring cancer treatments for individuals using DNA samples of blood and tumours. Cancer Research UK, working alongside pharmaceutical companies and the UK government, has set up a...

Researchers in Scotland are looking at how unpredictable working hours and stress affect our diet and the impact this has on our health. Variable stress levels and shift work have long been...

Researchers in Scotland are looking at how unpredictable working hours and stress affect our diet and the impact this has on our health. Variable stress levels and shift work have long been...