ZURICH, Switzerland, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

OleOle is adding real-time, interactive live blogging to enable football fans to pick sides as they interact around match reports - from their computer and from the stadium

Proposals to overhaul the approach to obtaining patient consent lack detail, contain advice that is non-specific, and might prevent doctors from making major changes to their practice warns an editorial in this week's BMJ.

Writing in response to the publication of the General Medical Council (GMC) guidance on patient consent to be implemented in June, Professor Glyn Elwyn argues that although the guidance appears radical and urges a change in the approach to informed consent, it fails to address how doctors will do this in busy clinical settings.

The process of obtaining consent from patients for procedures such as surgical operations often just involves patients signing a piece of paper declaring that they understand the nature of the procedure and its consequences, only a few hours before an operation. This rarely provides time for patients to read or consider the information about harms and benefits. In addition, evidence shows that patients want to be given more information about risks and consequences.

LONDON and PHILADELPHIA, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Flora Launches 'Cooking With Schools' Initiative to Help Put Healthy Eating at the Heart of the Classroom

Research released by Flora today reveals 93% of primary school teachers want the Government to take more action to improve cookery lessons in school, 99% of teachers believe teaching children how to choose and prepare healthy food is essential to good health.

To help put healthy eating at the heart of the classroom, the Flora team is launching Cooking with Schools, an initiative that will offer free cooking equipment to all primary schools across the UK and Ireland and provide teachers with comprehensive resource packs.

MANCHESTER, England, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Nostalgia has never been hotter and the latest 'must have' gift harps back to the good old days of boy meets girl, vinyl and tape cassettes.

MIXA(TM) is a 1GB USB memory stick, masquerading as a tape cassette, which allows anyone to design their own version and give the gift of music and memories to friends, family or that special someone, creating a unique gift for any occasion.

The thing that makes MIXA(TM) so special is that people can design it completely with the recipient in mind, from the sleeve design to the content itself which could simply be favourite music tracks - just like back in the 80's - as well as photographs, video clips or any other digital stuff.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Experts report on progress and explore promise of rotavirus vaccines

Over 350 of the world's leading scientific experts, policymakers and leading public health professionals from 67 countries convened today during the 8th International Rotavirus Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, to present new data about rotavirus -- a disease which causes acute diarrhea and often leads to death among young children.

"Regardless of where they live, virtually all children become infected with rotavirus by the age of three. Yet, 90 percent of child deaths due to rotavirus occur in the world's poorest countries," said Dr. Ciro de Quadros, of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

Many scientists have expressed the belief that if they only had a chance to explain the facts, they could convince intelligent educated people (at least) of the validity of a neo-Darwinian approach to understanding life. As the following email exchange suggests, this conventional assumption is wrong. Not all people - even intelligent ones - have minds that operate according to the same principles of rationality.

The following email conversation took place between me and a reader of an article called "Life 2.0" that I published in Newsweek International about synthetic life.   The reader - a young earth creationist - was only upset by what I wrote in the very first paragraph of a rather long article.  The email exchange that followed is instructive to those of us who want to convince our fellow citizens of the legitimacy of modern science  and its implications for understanding life and the universe as a whole. 

A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica that makes California's earthquake problem seem trivial.

Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., Washington University professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts&Sciences, and colleagues combined seismological and global positioning system (GPS) analyses to reveal two bursts of seismic waves from an ice stream in Antarctica every day - and each one equivalent to a magnitude seven earthquake.

The ice stream is essentially a giant glacier 60 miles wide and one-half mile thick. The data show that the river of ice moves about 18 inches within ten minutes, remains still for 12 hours, then moves another eighteen inches. Each time it moves, it gives off seismic waves that are recorded at seismographs all around Antarctica, and even as far away as Australia.

AUSTIN, Texas, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today announced the integration of fax receiving functionality with the document routing engine of FollowMe(R) to provide enhanced workflow capabilities.