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'We will continue the grand tradition of exploration' – Charles Bolden, Nasa
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After Atlantis landed, Nasa administrator Charles Bolden issued this statement about the legacy of the space shuttle and Nasa's continuing ambitions for human spaceflightAt today's final landing of the space shuttle, we had the rare opportunity to witness history. We turned the page on a remarkable era and began the next chapter in our nation's extraordinary story of exploration.The brave astronauts of STS-135 are emblematic of the shuttle program. Skilled professionals from diverse backgrounds who propelled America to continued leadership in space with the shuttle's many successes. It is my great honour today to welcome t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 21, 2011 Category: Science Tags: Final space shuttle mission The space shuttle Nasa Science guardian.co.uk Comment Source Type: news
Space shuttle: 'We will continue the grand tradition of exploration' | Nasa administrator Charles BoldenEmail this article to a colleague.
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After Atlantis landed, Nasa administrator Charles Bolden issued this statement about the legacy of the space shuttle and Nasa's continuing ambitions for human spaceflightAt today's final landing of the space shuttle, we had the rare opportunity to witness history. We turned the page on a remarkable era and began the next chapter in our nation's extraordinary story of exploration.The brave astronauts of STS-135 are emblematic of the shuttle program. Skilled professionals from diverse backgrounds who propelled America to continued leadership in space with the shuttle's many successes. It is my great honour today to welcome t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 21, 2011 Category: Science Tags: Final space shuttle mission The space shuttle Nasa Science guardian.co.uk Comment Source Type: news
Executive pay reform unlikely to reduce systemic risk in economyEmail this article to a colleague.
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(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Reforms aimed at curbing executive compensation will likely have little effect on reducing systemic risk in the financial system, according to published research by U. of I. law professor Christine Hurt, an expert in business law and corporate finance.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 21, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
5M in U.S. lacking necessities since 2008Email this article to a colleague.
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WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- Nearly 5 million fewer Americans have access to the basic necessities of life compared to October 2008, when the U.S. economy tanked, a Gallup poll indicates.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - July 20, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health-Care Use Remains SluggishEmail this article to a colleague.
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The U.S. economy's still-fragile health continues to keep consumers out of hospitals and doctors' offices, affecting the earnings reports Tuesday from UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson in contrasting ways.
Source: WSJ.com: Health - July 19, 2011 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
State Gets Mixed Grades On Wellness Report CardEmail this article to a colleague.
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BOSTON (CBS) – A new report card on health and wellness in Massachusetts indicates there is a lot of work to do.
The Health People/Health Economy Coalition gives the Commonwealth mixed grades on wellness programs.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Rod Fritz reports
Keith Mahoney, public affairs director for the Boston Foundation says some changes would be easy.
“We do not have a sales tax placed on candy and sugar sweetened beverages like soda,” says Mahoney. “Forty other states have this.”
In that category, the state gets a failing grade.
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - July 19, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Heard On WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Local Syndicated Local Watch Listen Health People/Health economy Coalition Keith Mahoney Rod Fritz Wellness Source Type: news
Gallup: Exercise drops during bad economyEmail this article to a colleague.
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BOSTON, July 19 (UPI) -- As the U.S. financial crisis took hold, adults curbed their weekly exercise and they still haven't recovered to 2008 levels, a Gallup poll indicates.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - July 19, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mock my pants, not my sisterEmail this article to a colleague.
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The following was written by Brian Skotko , MD, MPP, a Physician at Children’s Hospital Boston’s Down Syndrome Program. It’s in response to a feature in GQ magazine that used insensitive language.
Brian Skotko and his sister, Kristin
On July 15, John B. Thompson of GQ magazine slammed Bostonians as the worst dressed in the nation. Evidently, our beloved Beantown is actually a “bad-taste storm sewer” where all the worst fashion ideas come to “stagnate and putrefy.” He further decries, “Boston suffers from a kind of Style Down Syndrome , where a little extra ends up ruining everything.”
Go ahead, ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - July 18, 2011 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Childrens Hospital Boston staff Tags: All posts Diseases & conditions Down syndrome GQ mocks people with Down Syndrome insensitive language Raising a child with disabilities Source Type: news
Monday Links: How to Means-Test Entitlements; Tax Increases Needed to Fund Medicare; Reflections on Don BerwickEmail this article to a colleague.
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Means-testing Medicare is a critically important tool for bringing the program?s expenses under control. Because Medicare spending grows at a faster rate than the economy, it?s much more efficient to reduce Medicare spending on the wealthy, than it is to increase their taxes to fund a universal entitlement.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 18, 2011 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Avik Roy Source Type: news
Heads of Children’s, Dana-Farber co-write Globe editorial on costEmail this article to a colleague.
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James Mandell, MD, CEO of Children's
Ed Benz, MD, president of DFCI
It’s crucial that we cut health care costs.
It’s not just about the economy, although rising health care costs are wreaking havoc on budgets from the city level to the federal government. It’s also about access: if health care gets too expensive, many people simply cannot afford it.
In an effort to tackle this problem, many insurers are using “tiers.” In this system, hospitals and health care providers are placed into tiers based on cost. If employers or consumers use hospitals and doctors in the higher-cost tiers, they have to pay more...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - July 18, 2011 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Claire McCarthy Tags: Claire McCarthy, MD health care costs health care reform tiered networks Source Type: news
Medical technology industry grows in spite of economyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Strong employment, high earnings and valued shipments are among the direct and indirect benefits of the medical technology industry to the U.S. economy, according to a June report from the Lewin Group, which found that the industry is continuing to experience growth despite declines in other sectors.
Source: Cardiovascular Business News - July 18, 2011 Category: Cardiology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
U.S. economy limiting access to basic needs: studyEmail this article to a colleague.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans' access to basic needs, ranging from food and shelter to clean water
and healthcare, has not significantly improved since the height of the recession, according to a Gallup study
released on Friday.
Source: Modern Medicine - July 15, 2011 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Sir David King: world should abandon Kyoto protocol on climate changeEmail this article to a colleague.
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This report confronts the fact that a binding treaty is not going to occur in the near future, and that the pledge and review approach can bring important gains," said Paul Bledsoe, a former Bill Clinton White House official on climate change and veteran of the climate talks."For too long negotiators and activists have let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The motto should be start and strengthen, a method that has worked well for the Montreal protocol process. That said, pressure on major emitters to make cuts must be made in all venues, including the G20 and the major economies forums, to be fully effective."But King...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 15, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Fiona Harvey Tags: Kyoto protocol Climate change Global climate talks Environment Carbon emissions Emissions trading United Nations World news David King Population The Guardian Source Type: news
Overcoming Anxiety in Today’s Tough, Tuned-in, Plugged-in WorldEmail this article to a colleague.
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Every era has its ups and downs — war, natural disasters, economic trouble, social problems and crime. But what distinguishes today from any other era is our instant access to these devastating events. Thanks to a slew of ever-amazing technological advances, people can “watch tragedy and disaster on [their] smart phone,” said John Tsilimparis, MFT, director of the Anxiety and Panic Disorder Center of Los Angeles and author of the forthcoming book Retraining Your Anxious Mind: A New Approach to the Art of Anxiety Management.
But always being in the know has a downside. In fact, the combination of safety-compromising e...
Source: Psych Central - July 15, 2011 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anxiety Disorders General Healthy Living Psychotherapy Self-Help Stress Treatment 10th Anniversary Absolutes All Or Nothing Thinking Anxiety Disorder Anxiety Management Downside Economic Trouble Forthcoming Book Helplessnes Source Type: news
Independent UN expert urges South Africa to build a food economy to benefit allEmail this article to a colleague.
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An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on South Africa to build a food economy that is inclusive and benefits all segments of the population, especially the millions who are poor and food insecure.
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - July 15, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Bio-based production of the platform chemical 1,5-diaminopentane.Email this article to a colleague.
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In the rising era of bio-economy, the five carbon compound 1,5-diaminopentane receives increasing interest as platform chemical, especially as innovative building block for bio-based polymers. The vital interest in bio-based supply of 1,5-diaminopentane has strongly stimulated research on the development of engineered producer strains. Based on the state-of-art knowledge on the pathways and reactions linked to microbial 1,5-diaminopentane metabolism, the review covers novel systems metabolic engineering approaches towards hyper-producing cell factories of Corynebacterium glutamicum or Escherichia coli. This is integrat...
Source: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology - July 14, 2011 Category: Microbiology Authors: Kind S, Wittmann C Tags: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol Source Type: research
[News Focus] Revolutionizing Egypt's Science: A New Day for Egyptian Science?Email this article to a colleague.
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In the aftermath of Egypt's popular uprising, the country is embracing a grand vision to make scientific research the engine of a powerhouse economy. Can Egyptian scientists make it happen?Author: Andrew Lawler
Source: Science: Current Issue - July 14, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Lawler Source Type: research
Advanced CO2 Capture Project Abandoned Due to 'Uncertain' U.S. Climate PolicyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Citing a weak economy and the "current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy," utility American Electric Power has decided not to proceed with plans to expand CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS) efforts at its Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - July 14, 2011 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,History of Science,Technology,Society Policy,Everyday Science,Energy Technology,Alternative Energy Technology,Alternative Energy Technology,Climate,Energy Technology,Chemistry,More Science Source Type: research
Treating Depression During a Recession: Psychotherapy with Indigent ClientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract During the last few years, the global economy has struggled and many clients have experienced significant financial hardship.
It can be difficult to confront emotional problems when there are multiple life stressors impinging on clients and disrupting
their daily functioning. Several recommendations are provided for helping clients to oppose their depressive tendencies when
financial problems are real, significant, and lasting. First, therapists can provide a stable and supportive relationship
that helps to ease the client’s emotional distress and lays the foundation for other aspects of treatment...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - July 14, 2011 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy Source Type: research
US needs to increase its support of green initiatives, study suggestsEmail this article to a colleague.
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New York Times: The Brookings Institution has compiled what it describes as one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date analyses of the US’s enigmatic green economy. For its report “Sizing the Clean Economy,” the institution collected data from every county and major metropolitan area in the US from 2003 to 2010. One point the report makes, writes Joanna Foster for the New York Times, is that although green initiatives are driving growth and innovation, market and policy challenges—such as financing shortfalls, inadequate support for innovation, and policy gaps that undercut market demand—are...
Source: Physics Today News Picks - July 13, 2011 Category: Physics Authors: Physics Today Source Type: news
Dealing Strategically With the RUC to Boost Family Physician PaymentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Improving payment for the cognitive services we family physicians provide is, undoubtedly, the most crucial and challenging issue the Academy must resolve. The payment disparity between primary care and procedural specialties undermines every family physician who struggles to redesign and improve his or her practice in this economy, and it also drives medical students away from primary care.
Source: As We See It: Voices From the AAFP - July 13, 2011 Category: Practice Management Source Type: news
“Fair Use in the U. S. Economy” 2011 study by Computer & Communications Industry AssociationEmail this article to a colleague.
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The 2011 study, “Fair Use in the U.S. Economy,” which was commissioned by the Computer & Communications Industry Association, incorporates data from 2008 and 2009 found that despite the economic downturn, industries that rely on fair use exceptions to copyright law like technology and the news media remained steady compared to the rest of the U.S. economy.
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Source: News from STM - July 13, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
The Current Environment for Medical JournalsEmail this article to a colleague.
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There seems to be little question that we are currently in a trying period worldwide, and many factors are influencing the environment in which we live. The sluggish economy is, perhaps, the most prominent factor. There is also considerable political instability, especially in the Middle East. Medically, the growth of chronic noninfectious illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease, is an increasing issue for developing countries. A number of issues are also affecting the environment for medical journals. I thought it would be worthwhile to discuss some of these issues that are present in the current milieu.
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology - July 13, 2011 Category: Cardiology Authors: Anthony N. DeMaria Tags: EDITOR'S PAGE Source Type: research
Is sustaining the NHS at the current level affordable?Email this article to a colleague.
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Area: News
John Appleby, the Chief Economist at the King's Fund has published a briefing early online in the British Medical Journal, arguing whether the England's Health Secretary's declaration that "If things carry on unchanged, this would mean real terms health spending more than doubling to £230 billion by 2030 which is simply unaffordable" is true.
In the briefing, the author argues against the Health Secretary's statement, outlining how affordability would change by 2030 as the economy grows in value.
Source: NeLM - News - July 12, 2011 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
E. coli outbreak exposed tech gapsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nature 475, 7355 (2011). doi:10.1038/475174b
Author: Rainer Fislage
As well as the organizational mismanagement of the recent Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany (Nature474, 251; 10.1038/474251a2011), the technical underdevelopment of the country's medical microbiology institutes is staggering, given that Germany is the largest economy in Europe. Such
Source: Nature - July 12, 2011 Category: Research Authors: Rainer Fislage Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research
Farmers Market Seeks Tie-In to Food ProgramEmail this article to a colleague.
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An effort to help low-income residents get healthy food, while supporting farmers and the local economy, is growing in Tehama County. If all goes according to plan, people receiving CalFresh benefits — formerly known as food stamps — will be able to use them at the city's two farmers markets starting next summer.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - July 12, 2011 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Cutting AIDS Funding to China a Big Mistake: UNAIDSCutting AIDS Funding to China a Big Mistake: UNAIDSEmail this article to a colleague.
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It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the head of UNAIDS said Monday, rebuffing critics who say the world's second-largest economy should no longer be a recipient of such aid. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - July 12, 2011 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Clean Air Regulations And JobsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Congress: House bill would require analysis of EPA rules' impacts on the economy.
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - July 12, 2011 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Health and Safety in Agriculture and Food Security Nexus - Olowogbon ST.Email this article to a colleague.
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On a national scale, agricultural accidents place a great burden on the economy, the efficiency of the workers is impeded and agricultural output and productivity is reduced. The research assesses the implication of health and safety in agriculture and foo...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 12, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
USDA Picks Michigan for Food ProgramEmail this article to a colleague.
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Michigan is one of two states chosen by the United States Department of Agriculture to participate in a pilot program that will make it easier for locally grown food to end up in school cafeterias …The effort is expected to increase nutritional value in school lunches, boost the state's agricultural economy and give students the opportunity to see where their food comes from, [Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen] Merrigan said.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - July 11, 2011 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Passages: For midlife American women, the sky is fallingEmail this article to a colleague.
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The toll on emotional health for women in the core group of Baby Boomers now mid-40s to mid-50s has a significant impact on our economy and ...
Source: USATODAY.com Health - July 11, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The decline of Britain's train-manufacturing industry: who is to blame? | Aditya ChakraborttyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The story of British train-maker Bombardier reveals a hard lesson: who owns a company mattersIn the shopping precinct of Derby city centre a great British industry is staging its last stand. There are no guns or whooping Sioux here – instead, you have a gaggle of volunteers in T-shirts and linen trousers clutching petitions to save the local train manufacturer. Except that Bombardier is also the last train-maker in Britain, and the campaigners gathered by the ram statue know they're playing for big stakes. "We gave the world the railways," says Labour MP Chris Williamson. "Now we're about to give it away."Melodramatic? I...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 11, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Aditya Chakrabortty Tags: Bombardier Manufacturing sector Psychology Science The Guardian Features Comment is free Source Type: news
Cutting AIDS funding to China a big mistake: UNAIDSEmail this article to a colleague.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the head of UNAIDS said Monday, rebuffing critics who say the world's second-largest economy should no longer be a recipient of such aid.
Source: Reuters: Health - July 11, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Scientific Societies, Universities Write to Lawmakers in Defense of Peer ReviewEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Honorable Harold Rogers
Chairman, House Appropriations
H-307, U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Norman Dicks
Ranking Member, House Appropriations
1016 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Chairman Rogers & Ranking Member Dicks,
As representatives of U.S. science, engineering, and higher education organizations, we write to you in strong support for the federal research and development budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and its mission--created over 60 years ago--to advance research across a broad spectrum of disciplines, research that has fueled American economic grow...
Source: ActionBioscience - July 10, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
European suicides spiked during economic crisisEmail this article to a colleague.
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History shows that the suicide rate tends to rise as the economy falls, but due to a lack of solid data, researchers haven't been able to confirm whether that pattern has held during the most recent economic crisis, the worst since the Great Depression.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 8, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Switching The Energy Economy Of San AntonioEmail this article to a colleague.
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San Antonio's mayor says he wants to make the city a hub for alternative and renewable energy businesses. Ira Flatow and guests discuss how a city can change its energy habits. Plus, smart meters let utilities know how much energy a house is using minute by minute. Who should own the data? Can consumers use the info to save money?» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - July 8, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
US government openly admits arming Mexican drug gangs with 30,000 firearms - but why?Email this article to a colleague.
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(NaturalNews) It is now a widely-reported fact that under the Obama administration, U.S. federal agents actively placed over 30,000 fully-functional weapons into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, then halted all surveillance and tracking activities of where those weapons were going.This is not a conspiracy theory, nor a piece of fiction. It is now an openly-admitted fact that this was pulled off by the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, more commonly called "ATF") under orders from Washington. The program was called "Fast and Furious."Even Reuters is now covering the news and reporting how members o...
Source: NaturalNews.com - July 8, 2011 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Europe’s Suicides Up, Road Deaths Down After Economy TankedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers say death trends reflect effects of financial crisis
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - July 7, 2011 Category: Psychiatry Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Organ Transplants, Preventive Medicine, News, Source Type: news
Rodent models of pulmonary hypertension: harmonisation with the world health organisation’s categorisation of human PHEmail this article to a colleague.
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SummaryThe WHO classification of pulmonary hypertension (PH) recognises five distinct groups, all sharing a mean, resting, pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) > 25 mmHg. The aetiology of PH varies by group (1‐pulmonary vascular disease, 2‐high left heart filling pressures, 3‐hypoxia, 4‐unresolved pulmonary embolism and 5‐miscellaneous). Inclusion in a group reflects shared histological, haemodynamic and pathophysiological features and has therapeutic implications. Advantages of using rodent models to understand the pathophysiology of human PH and to test experimental therapies include the economy, safety and m...
Source: International Journal of Clinical Practice - July 7, 2011 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: J. RyanK. BlochS. L. Archer Tags: REVIEW Source Type: research
SETsquared partners with SWAIN to kick-start the economyEmail this article to a colleague.
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SETsquared, a collaboration between the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey that supports new business activities through spin-outs, licensing and incubation, has formed a new partnership with South West Angel and Investor Network (SWAIN) in a bid to accelerate investment in the region’s most exciting business opportunities.
Source: University of Bristol news - July 7, 2011 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Other news Source Type: news
360 Degrees of Health: The Limitations of Mobile AppsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, iHealthBeat Content: “The market for mobile health is one of the brightest lights of the economy, based on forecasts published during the first half of 2011. In-Stat expects that the market for wireless health will reach $4.5 billion in 2014. Meanwhile, McKinsey gauges the “global mHealth opportunity” at $50 billion.
These are heady [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 7, 2011 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Applications mHealth Source Type: news
Deep Conversion of Carbon Monoxide to Hydrogen and Formation of Acetate by the Anaerobic Thermophile Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformansEmail this article to a colleague.
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Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans is a thermophilic strictly anaerobic bacterium that catalyses the water gas shift reaction, the conversion of carbon monoxide with water to molecular hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The thermodynamically favorable growth temperature, compared to existing industrial catalytic processes, makes this organism an interesting alternative for production of cheap hydrogen gas suitable to fuel CO-sensitive fuel cells in a future hydrogen economy, provided sufficiently low levels of CO are reached. Here we study CO conversion and final CO levels in cultures of C. hydrogenoformans grown in batch culture...
Source: Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology - July 7, 2011 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
End of space shuttle programme spells disaster for local economyEmail this article to a colleague.
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When the space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth, 2,000 Kennedy Space Centre employees will be laid off, bringing job losses from the shuttle programme close to 10,000As landlord of the nearest pub to the Kennedy Space Centre, Bill Grillo is proud of his highbrow crowd of regulars.For three decades, astronauts, rocket scientists, engineers, technicians and mission managers have kept the till at Shuttles sports bar and grill ringing. Every American who has blasted into space from a nearby launchpad has taken a meal there, and had his or her framed picture placed prominently on a wall.But all that will change this month when...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 7, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Richard Luscombe Tags: Final space shuttle mission The space shuttle Nasa Science Engineering World news United States US economy Business Florida guardian.co.uk Source Type: news
SfE BES free places for 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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We are pleased to announce the next round of applications for free places to attend the Society for Endocrinology BES 2012 meeting will open on 31 October 2011 with a closing date of 5 December 2011.
Members of the Society are invited to put forward candidates where the candidate is a trainee scientist, clinician or nurse who has not yet chosen endocrinology as their specialty. Student members of the Society may also receive a free place.
Successful candidates will receive a complimentary meeting package which includes registration fees, accommodation for the duration of the meeting and the reimbursement of economy-class...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - July 6, 2011 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
