Science Education & Policy

Voting May Be Bad For Your Health- Automobile Fatalities Go Up On Election Day

Sunnybrook researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier and Stanford University statistician Robert Tibshirani have found an increased risk of fatal motor vehicle crashes on United States (US) presidential election days. US presidential elections have large effects o ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2008 - 10:29pm

News Media (Except Us) Rarely Report Funding Sources In Medical Research

An analysis of news media coverage of medical studies indicates that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, according to a study in the Oc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2008 - 10:43pm

New Xenos Enterprise Server Makes Its Debut

TORONTO, Canada, October 1 /PRNewswire/--- After the Past 2 Days it's all About Return on Information- Xenos ES Enables Organisations to Reduce Reuse Recycle Structured and Unstructured Electronic Data and Documents Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS) today ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 2:34am

The Quest For Health And Wellness At Work

LISSE, The Netherlands, October 1 /PRNewswire/--- Inner Wellness at Work is the Next Big Thing LISSE, The Netherlands, October 1 /PRNewswire/-- Many organizations are recognizing the need to develop health and wellness initiatives for their employees. Exe ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 3:30am

New 40th Edition Of Gray's Anatomy Celebrates 150 Years As The World's Preeminent Anatomical Reference

PHILADELPHIA, October 1 /PRNewswire/--- "Expert Consult" Title Regularly Integrates New Information Online so the Content is Always Current Elsevier, the leading publisher of medical and scientific literature, announces the publication of the 40 ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 4:33am

Merck Serono Among The Winners In The German BioPharma Strategy Competition

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 1 /PRNewswire/--- Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Rewards Innovative Concepts for the Targeted Development of New Medicines- Merck Serono is Involved in Two of the Three BMBF-Sponsored Consorti ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 7:30am

Unite To Hold Industrial Action Ballot Over NHS 'Derisory' Pay

LONDON, October 1 /PRNewswire/-- Thousands of NHS employees are being asked to take industrial action in a pay protest ballot next month by Unite, the largest union in the country. Unite will be asking its members whether they are prepared to take industr ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 7:30am

Informex Adds Process Engineering Component To Educational Program

PRINCETON, New Jersey, October 1 /PRNewswire/--- Consultants from Scientific Update, LLP to Host Roundtable Discussions Centered on Organic Chemical Scale-up, Process R&D and Process Optimization, at InformexUSA, January 27, 2009 ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 9:30am

SunGard Completes Acquisition Of Majority Interest In GL TRADE

WAYNE, Pennsylvania and PARIS, October 1 /PRNewswire/-- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 1 2008 - 11:30am

Television Viewing And Aggression Impacted By Both Gender And Ethnicity, Say Psychologists

The effect of media violence on behavior is not as straightforward as you might think. Although many studies have been conducted examining the link between violence on TV and aggressive behavior, most of these studies have overlooked several other potenti ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2008 - 2:27pm