LONDON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Few Countries Have Prioritised This Potentially Preventable and Curable Cancer

A classified assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) says climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or wars over water. The House Intelligence Committee will get a briefing today on the main findings and the full report will be released Monday, June 30th.

It's the perfect storm of buzzwords. This might be check and mate for environmental activists. Relating global warming to terrorism is a masterstroke of logical and cultural hand trickery but what can Big Oil do, deny there is terrorism? No one is more impacted by sea level rise than the Dutch so look for that military build-up in Holland over the next few years. The Belgians have it coming.

The assessment itself is confidential, because the other 6 billion of us won't be impacted by global warming or world wars over water, but thankfully some analyses used as raw material will be open, including a series of studies done by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). On commission from NIC, CIESIN ranked countries by looking at three climate risks: sea-level rise, increased water scarcity, and an aggregate measure of vulnerability based on projected temperature change, compared with nations' ability to adapt.

The sexual and feminist revolutions were supposed to free women to enjoy casual sex just as men always had but according to Professor Anne Campbell from Durham University in the UK (1), the negative feelings reported by women after one-night stands suggest that they are not well adapted to fleeting sexual encounters.

Men are more likely to reproduce and therefore to benefit from numerous short-term partners. For women, however, quality seems to be more important than quantity. Also for women, finding partners of high genetic quality is a stronger motivator than sheer number, and it is commonly believed that women are more willing to have casual sex when there is a chance of forming a long-term relationship.

This University of Copenhagen press release says that they would like to be first to create a quantum computer. They have made no more progress than anyone else, really, but want us all to know that they are thinking about it.

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Bassinet use in 2006 was nearly double what it was in 1992, and even though more than 45% of infants between the ages of 0-2 months use them, little is known about bassinet safety.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has guidelines regarding bassinet construction but there are no government safety standards for bassinets. In 2005, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revised its recommendations for a safe infant sleep environment, suggesting a separate but nearby sleeping arrangement (i.e. roomsharing without bedsharing).

Two studies in The Journal of Pediatrics evaluate the frequency of bedsharing and the potential risk factors of bassinet use.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

AKQA presented the winning entries in its third annual Future Lions Competition at the Cannes Lions Festival held on Saturday, June 21 in Cannes, France. The global creative competition featured work from more than 600 students around the world. Nine lucky winners were introduced to the leading agencies attending the Cannes Lions Festival.

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"This year's entries showcase the ingenuity of students entering today's advertising workforce," said Lars Bastholm, Co-Chief Creative Officer at AKQA. "These students are hungry, their talent is fierce and I recommend you hire them before they steal your job."

UXBRIDGE, England, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has announced today, in its Final Appraisal Determination (FAD), that Baraclude(R) (entecavir) is recommended as an option for treatment of eligible patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Entecavir is a potent anti-viral treatment for chronic Hepatitis B that has been shown to be more effective at suppressing the virus than the most widely used anti-viral treatment (lamivudine)(1) and is less prone to the development of treatment resistance.(2) The recommendation in this FAD is due to be published as final NICE guidance in August of this year.

GENEVA and WASHINGTON DC, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year - one for every 25 people - and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new safety checklist for surgical teams to use in operating theatres, as part of a major drive to make surgery safer around the world.

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"Preventable surgical injuries and deaths are now a growing concern," said Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO. "Using the Checklist is the best way to reduce surgical errors and improve patient safety."

MAIDENHEAD, England, June 25 /PRNewswire/ --

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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) today recommended adalimumab (HUMIRA) as a treatment option for adults with severe chronic plaque psoriasis. (1) Psoriasis is a non-contagious, recurrent autoimmune disease that affects around 1.2 million people in the UK, up to 240,000 of whom suffer from the severe form of the disease.(2), (3)

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ --

IdenTrust, Inc today announced that Lloyds TSB has selected IdenTrust to provide trusted identity services for the bank's corporate banking customers using the BACSTEL-IP payment network.

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Lloyds TSB has joined the IdenTrust identity scheme and will provide its corporate banking customers IdenTrust digital identities to deliver strong authentication capabilities for users accessing BACSTEL-IP systems and for the digital signing of BACS transactions. In addition to joining the IdenTrust identity scheme, Lloyds TSB has engaged IdenTrust to provide a fully managed hosting service for the bank's high assurance identity requirements.