Science Education & Policy

Ringdale, Inc. Announces Availability Of FollowMe Embedded For Ricoh

AUSTIN, Texas, June 18 /PRNewswire/-- Ringdale(R), Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today announced the availability of FollowMe(R) Embedded for Ricoh, a completely integrated version of FollowMe Printing, the industr ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 18 2008 - 9:30am

Teaching Kids Science- NASA Hopes To Catch Disney's Wall-E Wave

NASA hopes to use the the new Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures film WALL-Eto promote interest among schoolchildren in science and technology. They have signed a Space Act Agreement for a series of educational and public outreach activities related to Di ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2008 - 8:50pm

Italian Privacy Advocates And Jurists Launch New Privacy Institute

ROME, June 19 /PRNewswire/--- Institute will focus on Policy Solutions to Protect Personal Data in the Digital Age in Italy and the European Union A group of prominent Italian privacy advocates and jurists have launched the Italian Institute for Privacy ( ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 19 2008 - 1:30am

Cardium's InnerCool Therapies Unit Announces Italian Commercialization Agreement For Portfolio Of Temperature Modulation Systems

SAN DIEGO, June 19 /PRNewswire/-- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 19 2008 - 8:32am

Just This Once, Let's Keep Policy On Pace With Science

Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.K. Holohan, and Francis Collins in the June 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. But the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2008 - 10:03am

Sixth Annual RFID World 2008 Event Addresses Critical Industry And Consumer Requirements With Demonstrable Vertical-Market RFID

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 /PRNewswire/--- Food Safety, Healthcare and Transportation 'Industry Solution Tracks' Strengthen Conference Agenda TechInsights today announced the expansion of the RFID World 2008 conference (http://www.rfid-world.com/200 ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 19 2008 - 12:32pm

Court Determines That University Of Pittsburgh And Artecel Have Sole Rights To Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Patent

SUNNYVALE, California, June 19 /PRNewswire/--- Cytori and UC lose rights to Adipose-Derived Stem Cells; business agreements and activity under other patents likely affected. ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 19 2008 - 3:30pm

Who Gets Rich From Rising Food Prices?

With food prices going up, farmers are getting wealthy (or wealthier, in the case of the big conglomerates), right? Not outside the US, according to a study in Economic Development and Cultural Change by Marcel Fafchamps(1) and Ruth Vargas Hill(2). In thei ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2008 - 3:37pm

Administration Staff At EIS Take Strike Action Over Pay

LONDON, June 20 /PRNewswire/-- EMBARGOED: Not for publication before 00:01 BST on Friday June 20- Att'n: Scotland Editors Administration staff working for Scotland's biggest teaching union are to strike today (Friday 20th June) over management&# ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 19 2008 - 6:33pm

Medical Advisors- Shills For The Pharmaceutical Industry?

Are senior doctors who help drug companies sell their drugs independent experts or just drug representatives in disguise, asks Ray Moynihan from the University of Newcastle in Australia, in this week's BMJ. Pharmaceutical companies regularly sponsor l ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2008 - 7:11pm