Science Education & Policy

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

Science vs. Nonscience: Teaching Creation and Evolution is not the Compromise Position, it's the Fundamentalist One

The argument that we should teach both creationism and evolution in public schools has been the fundamentalist argument since 1968, when the Supreme Court ruled that states can't ban the teaching of evolution. If you can't ban evolution, maybe yo ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 10:10pm

Platts Announces Finalists For The 10th Annual Global Energy Awards

NEW YORK, October 2 /PRNewswire/-- In announcing the 2008 finalists for its annual Platts Global Energy Awards today, Platts underscores the changing emphasis of global energy towards long-term supply solutions with finalists in two new categories: Sustai ...

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

Does Music Really Increase Exercise Endurance? Yes, By 15 Percent

Dr. Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University’s School of Sport and Education today revealed a study stating that carefully selected music can significantly increase a person’s physical endurance and make the experience of cardiovascular exercise far more p ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2008 - 10:44pm

Novae Deploy Motor Fleet Business Online With SAFI

WATFORD, England, October 2 /PRNewswire/-- Doing business online has been the mission of Novae Group Plc ('Novae') since deploying Salmon's Application Framework for Insurance (SAFI(TM)) for its underwriting business in 2004. Novae have now ...

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