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SeatGuru
Airline seating charts, amenities, recline and seat width, lavatory locations, and airline information. Brought to you by TripAdvisor.

Gapminder
Gapminder World is a online application which allows you to creates interactive maps and charts using data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators report. For example, you could plot life expectancy against GNP/capita, and watch the relationship change over time. Fascinating stuff and very user-friendly.

Supercourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a network of over 55000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3518 lectures in 26 languages. The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, with core developers Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Faina Linkov, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D., Ph.D. and Eugene Shubnikov MD

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Opencourseware Project
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s opencourseware project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses.

The Global Health Education Consortium has initiated a project to develop by late 2008 at least 100 teaching modules on global health topics..

The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library is a great resource for research in Human Rights. It houses over 25,000 human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites. Documents are available in six languages - Arabic, English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Great resource for Human Rights!

The University of Minnesota Bioethics links webpage is a fantastic and exhausting list of links, which are organized into four categories: Information Sources, Code of Ethics (links from various health care professional organization websites), Journals of Ethics, Medicine, and Science, and Literature Searches.

Harvard Medical School Centre for Health and the Global Environment
Resources for medical students, publications and events promoting awareness of the importance of the global environment in human health issues

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European Union to Develop a Medical Device Performance Database

April 22, 2010
 
In an effort to improve public safety, the European Union will adopt an online database for medical device products by next year, the EU's executive body announced this week.

The European Commission has decided to require all member countries to use Eudamed, a Web-based portal for documenting a range of medical device products, by May 2011.

The commission's decision applies to a broad range of medical devices, from pacemakers and X-ray machines to syringes and blood and urine tests. The secure database will allow countries to rapidly share critical safety information on medical devices, the EU says.

Currently, while EU-approved devices can be sold throughout the EU economic zone, data on safety and malfunctioning or adverse incidents involving medical devices are only collected nationally.