Science Education & Policy

Statement From ALCS Following Fringe Event At Labour Party Conference

LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/--- Secretary of State for Culture Calls for a Different Approach to the Internet That Brings Value Back to Content Creators Britain's creators met with Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture on Monday at La ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 25 2008 - 5:30am

Bytemobile Launches WebGate Next-Generation Mobile Internet Gateway With New Release Of Unison Platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, September 25 /PRNewswire/-- Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the general availability of its WebGate(TM) Service, which provides a single service control poi ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Redline Communications Ranked Among The Fastest Growing Technology Companies In Canada

TORONTO, September 25 /PRNewswire/--- Redline Achieves Ranking Among the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for the Third Consecutive Year Redline Communications Inc. ("Redline") (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of standards-based WiMAX and broad ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 25 2008 - 10:33am

Bill Gates Announces US$168 Million To Develop Next-Generation Malaria Vaccine

NEW YORK, September 25 /PRNewswire/--- At UN Summit, Gates Heralds New Progress in Malaria Control and R&D Bill Gates announced today that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide US$168.7 million to PATH for its Malaria Vaccine Initiative ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 25 2008 - 12:33pm

World Leaders Commit Billions To Tackle Malaria (Finally) But Tack On Some Porkbarrel Too

World leaders gathered today at the 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit to endorse an ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan and commit US $3 billion toward reducing the number of malaria deaths to near zero by 2015. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2008 - 8:13pm

California Already Ranks Near The Bottom In Education And By 2014 It Will Be Worse

How well students and schools succeed in mastering a curriculum that includes English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, and the social and natural sciences, strongly influences how well the students fare in higher education. In California, student mastery ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2008 - 5:08pm

Landmark Campaign Reaches Rural Kenyans With Tools To Prevent Malaria, Diarrhoeal Disease And HIV

KAKAMEGA, Kenya, September 26 /PRNewswire/--- Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign Provides Affordable and Efficient Approach to Preventing Disease Identified An important new approach to fighting malaria, diarrhoeal disease and HIV among adult m ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 25 2008 - 7:30pm

Should Pregnant Women Be Included In Clinical Trials?

Why aren't pregnant women included in most clinical trials? Bioethicists at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities writing in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (*) say it's time to c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2008 - 1:17am

Boston Scientific Celebrates Grand Opening Of International Institute For Therapy Advancement

PARIS, September 26 /PRNewswire/--- State-of-the-art medical training center in Paris designed to advance standard of patient care Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the grand opening of the International Institute for Therapy Advan ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 26 2008 - 1:30am

The European Library Opens 27 Jewel Boxes

HEEMSTEDE, The Netherlands, September 26 /PRNewswire/--- The Contents of Europe's National Libraries Will Soon be Available in Most European Languages With funding from the European Commission and the Conference of European National Libraries (CENL), ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 26 2008 - 3:30am