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"Labs-on-a-chip" have been introduced for time-saving and automatic diagnosis and detection of diseases. These new forms of diagnosis are comparable to ticket machines which are located in all areas of daily life such as superm...
Due to rising costs, doctors are less often being consulted, but patients medicate themselves. The probability of undetected diseases and risks for overdoses rise.
New viruses kill several thousands in European cities
New viruses similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the Swine influenza virus (SIV) and other animal diseases continue to kill people in Europe. However, due to poor infrastructure and insufficient responses, t...
Extinction of species providing common food
Increased reliance on fewer favoured varieties of plant and animal foods increases risk of devastating effect of diseases (could be through genetic selection, GM or just market pressure). For example, with less varieties of app...
New severe pandemia leads to spread of global protectionism
A globally spreading pandemia forces states to cease travelling and limit transportation. Social mistrust and fear leads to protectionism which eventually stops the world trade and crashes economies.
Big cities and urban areas work on new types of health care management, such as disease management and care/treatment management. They actively intervene in public health and thus in national competencies. This particularly aff...
Recent studies show suggest nanotubes could trigger diseases similar to those caused by asbestos.
New Vaccines Cause New Diseases
New promising vaccines turn out to cause new kinds of new diseases/long-term effects, which is a huge setback for the scientific community. Millions of people are infected.
New Approaches for Stem Cell Based Therapies
Stem cell based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson´s and Huntington´s disease is close. Stem cell therapies might also be applied to other diseases.
International Rise of Widespread Diseases
Setbacks for the fight against diseases such as polio or tuberculosis as the parents in industrial countries are taking the decision not to vaccinate their children.
Water Pollution Warning System
Researchers work on a water pollution warning system. This would constantly analyse water quality. Differencies can immediately be recognised by science centres and thereby warn of pollution and a risk for diseases caused by wa...
Increase of Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
The number of people - especially children - that have to deal with different kinds of allergies and autoimmune diseases increases. Besides an increasing refusal of chemical products, there is also a greater demand for improve...
Nanotechnologies cure most diseases in Europe
Nanotechnology will develop a nanomedicine technology which will be able to cure any disease and correct any physical disorder. A nanotechnology which will be able to identify and eliminate any harmful pathogen in the human bod...
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