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Health Check: International Medical Help After Typhoon Haiyan

Tacloban hospital, Philippines

19/02/2014

International Medical Help After Typhoon Haiyan

BBC World Service - Health Check, International Medical Help After Typhoon Haiyan

What lessons can be learnt from the international medical help effort in Philippines?

British doctor, Steve Mannion, talks about his experience helping injured people in the Philippines following the devastating Typhoon Haiyan.

More than 30 countries and organisations sent medical teams and supplies to help the Philippines following the devastating Typhoon Haiyan. Steve Mannion, a British orthopaedic surgeon, talks about his experience in Tacloban, and the lessons learnt to improve the international emergency medical response the next time there’s a disaster. 

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Cancer Computer Game
Researchers are far better at collecting vast amounts of scientific data than they are at actually analysing them. To combat this problem, the charity Cancer Research UK has just launched a mobile phone game, 'Genes In Space', that farms statistical analysis out to the public. Under the guise of flying a spaceship through a meteor storm, game players actually navigate their way through genetic sequence data from breast cancer patients. The information on the virtual path they take is automatically uploaded to the database and fed back into the scientific process. Reporter Tim Cockerill tries out the game. 

(Photo: Residents wait for their turn to get relief supplies in Tacloban Hospital, Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. Credit: Jeoffrey Maitem, Getty Images)

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