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Medical devices are in need of a health check following recent scandals with breast and hip implants across Europe. New rules requiring stricter safety checks were approved by the Parliament's public health committee on 25 September. MEPs also called for stricter rules on informed consent on DNA testing. The new rules are expected to be put to a vote in plenary at the end of October.

Numerous studies have reported that certain diseases are inherited. But genetics also plays a role in immune response, affecting our ability to stave off disease, according to a team of international researchers. The new findings, from the SardiNIA Study of Aging, supported in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health.

Stricter monitoring, stronger certification bodies, better traceability: following several recent scandals like the PIP breast implant and the hip "metal on metal", health MEPs amended draft legislation in order to better protect patients on Wednesday. They also introduced stricter rules on informed consent and ethics in a separate law on in vitro diagnostic medical devices, used for example for HIV and DNA testing.

Reducing child mortality rates is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

PirB (red) is heavily concentrated on the surface of growing nerve cells.