The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has launched a call for tenders for development scenarios for a European infrastructure in high-performance computing (HPC).

The EU is massively behind the US in the allocation of public funding to cancer research, according to a European Commission-funded survey. The crux of the problem is that Member States are failing to adequately support cancer research, leaving EU funds to fill the gap rather than provide added impact. The survey also noted the growing contribution of the non-profit philanthropic sector to cancer research.

A new telemedicine platform promises to greatly improve the quality of care patients receive by giving highly qualified specialists the ability to collaborate efficiently when interpreting data from advanced medical imaging techniques.

Help scientists tackle malaria by volunteering your...computer! CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is calling on people worldwide to donate some of the spare capacity on their home and business computers in order to run Malaria.net, a computer model for malaria epidemiology. The model aims to help improve the ability of researchers to predict, and hence control, the spread of malaria in Africa.

Robots are getting smarter all the time, and are now able to perform highly complex activities, yet there are still large numbers of tasks which are second nature to humans but leave robots largely stumped. For example, we are able to recognise someone we know in a large crowd, even if they are wearing sunglasses and a hat. In contrast robots would simply be unable to carry out this task, as they are ill equipped to handle unpredictable situations where they do not have full knowledge.

One of the first eHealthNews.EU Portal published articles was "What is e-health?" by Gunther Eysenbach, Journal of Medical Internet Research. By being based on this article we decided to create for our visitors a Pool with title "What is eHealth?" in order to strengthen the Author opinion, and to spread his "The 10 e's in eHealth" view.

EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik has provided details of how the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will continue to support the development of integrated research infrastructures of pan European interest.