Many nations around the world are faced with a wide range of water problems. This is especially true in many developing countries such as the Republic of Congo, Mauritania, Bangladesh and India. These countries are facing severe shortages in drinking water and the technology to improve water quality. There is no equipment or facilities available to make the water safe to drink. The…

The performance of the public healthcare services in Hong Kong has been far from ideal in recent years, with chains of blunders happening one after the other in public hospitals throughout the city. Some of the more recent incidents include newborn babies who were injected with outdated anti-tuberculosis vaccines, two babies were mixed up in the hospital postnatal ward - the mothers…

The hot topic currently dominating American news headlines is President Obama's…

In the modern day and age we as a human race have not experienced a major pandemic outbreak since the days of the Spanish flu, where it is estimated that 50 million people of the worlds population was wiped out. Prompting the question, are we prepared this time round? Do we have adequate methods in place now to deal with an outbreak of such scale? Can…