Although she received offers from the world's largest companies, which could have given her fabulous amounts of money, Romanian Raluca Van Staden, inventor of a device that detects cancer in its early stages, will launch its invention in Romania. Van Staden said the device that could save millions of lives will go in production soon, at a local company, and will be used by general practitioners because they are the first who come in contact with patients. The device's sensor detects the presence of cancer in the blood, in a stage in which it can be cured 99 percent. The test will cost only a few Euro, while a CAT scan or biopsy cost hundreds of lei. In only six minutes, the patient can find out whether they are prone to breast, gastrointestinal, prostate or ovarian cancer.

In a debate over the new draft Law of Education, President Traian Basescu on Monday said a presidential commission that assessed the country's health system found a wrong diagnosis rate in excess of 40 pc, which he blamed on the poor education system.

We used to know what 40-something looked like. It meant short, neat hair, sensible clothes and the onset of middle-aged spread. It meant less focus on yourself and more on those around you (who's going to be looking at you, anyway?), a time for slipping gradually into the cosy cardie of your middle years. 'Forty, fat and frumpy' was the tag that women dreaded, not least because it was so often true, the Daily Mail writes.