Science Education & Policy

Platts To Announce 2008 Top 250 Global Energy Companies

NEW YORK, August 4 /PRNewswire/--- The Ranking, In Its 7th Year, To Be Unveiled At 3rd Annual Top 250 Global Energy Companies Asia Leadership Awards Dinner Platts, the world's leading energy information provider and a division of The McGraw-Hill Comp ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 4 2008 - 5:30pm

Stevia The Controversial Sugarleaf Unleashed

It may not be an ever popular artificial sweetener like NutraSweet, or have the crystalline texture of pure sugar, but the herb, which is commonly found at Trader Joes when it isn’t in its natural South American setting is sweeter than its sweetener counte ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Aug 4 2008 - 6:56pm

Oncology NEWS International Announces More Functional Redesign Aimed At Broader Coverage Of The Hematology And Oncology Marketpl

SAN FRANCISCO, August 5 /PRNewswire/-- Oncology NEWS International, a leading provider of news and coverage of the hematology and oncology market for the past 17 years, has announced a redesign of its editorial content aimed at addressing the ever-changin ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 5 2008 - 9:30am

The International Institute For Software Process (IISP) Announces The Availability Of The INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVE

MINNEAPOLIS, August 5 /PRNewswire/-- Since IISP announced the Certified Software Process Improvement Professional (CSPIP) program last March, we have received an overwhelming number of inquiries from organizations and individuals in different countries re ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 5 2008 - 3:30pm

Chlamydia Treatment In Pharmacies Will Deliver Convenient Care For Patients

LONDON, August 6 /PRNewswire/-- Today's decision by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve the reclassification of azithromycin for the treatment of chlamydia infection will mean convenient and effective care for pa ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 5 2008 - 6:33pm

The choice between simulation and experiment: Biology and Physics have the same problems

Physicist Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson on computers and physics: The prestige attached to computers and their erudite gimmicks impresses almost everyone, but especially the simulators. They often believe they have proved that a system--like the little cr ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 23 2008 - 12:05am

Neuro-Education And Rewiring The Dyslexic Brain

A new Carnegie Mellon University brain imaging study of dyslexic students and other poor readers shows that the brain can permanently rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, if students are given 100 hours of intensive remedial instruction. The study, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2008 - 11:01pm

Foreign Threats Have Increased American Tolerance, Says Study

Despite concerns that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 would increase intolerance toward Muslims, the opposite is true, according to new research by University of British Columbia (UBC) and Stanford University researchers published this week in ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2008 - 10:04pm

ClickSoftware Products Excel In The Preliminaries, Now Ready For Prime Time During 2008 Beijing Olympics

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, August 6 /PRNewswire/--- Optimized Mobile Workforce Management System Schedules More Than 1,000 Technicians to Ensure Telecommunications Services run Smoothly ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 6 2008 - 7:30am

Continuing Medical Education: A "Quasi-Academic" Activity?

For years, doctors like Arnold Relman and Marcia Angell, both former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, have been advocating drastic changes to the way the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) deals with pharmaceutica ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Aug 7 2008 - 10:26am