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National Academy Of Engineering AnnouncesMillion-Dollar Challenge To P
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today the establishment of the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. This prize will award $1 million for a practical technology that can prevent the slow poisoning of people throughout the world as a result of arsenic contamination of drinking water. Study Finds Flaws In Cancer Clinical Trials
Cancer research and drug development are yielding more sophisticated candidate therapies, but investigators' methods to test them haven't kept pace, according to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. That could explain why so many experimental drugs fail in the final large and costly phase of testing, they say. 'A Sense Of Where You Are' Gives Clues To How We Think As Well As What
Bowling Green State University researchers measured the electrical firing of 51 individual cells in the medial mammillary nucleus of five rats' brains -- "to our knowledge…the first recordings from medial mammillary body cells in awake animals,"according to their research paper. When It Comes To Information Overload, Two Heads May Not Be Better Tha
In an age of e-mails, databases and online catalogues, two heads may no longer be better than one, according to new ESRC-sponsored research into the effects of information overload. Satellite Survey Links Tropical Park Fires With Poverty And Corruption
According to the first global assessment of forest fire control effectiveness in tropical parks, poverty and corruption correlate closely with lack of fire protection in tropical moist forests. A better understanding of the links between corruption, poverty and park management will help conservationists and policy makers create sophisticated strategies to conserve tropical ecosystems. Microbe's Genome Promises Insight Into Earth's Carbon And Sulfur Cycli
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the microorganism Silicibacter pomeroyi, a member of an abundant group of marine bacteria known to impact the Earth's ecosystem by releasing and consuming atmospheric gases. This genetic blueprint provides insight into the biochemical pathways the bacterium uses to regulate its release of sulfur and carbon monoxide. Malcolm X: The Search for Truth
Companion to an exhibit using materials from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, to present "a provocative and informative perspective on the life of the person known variously as Malcolm Little, 'Detroit Red,' Malcolm X, and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz."Includes timelines of the life of the Black Nationalist leader, a bibliography, a filmography, and related links. Doctors' Extended Duration Work Shifts Are Associated With Medical Err
A study from the US of doctors in their first postgraduate year (interns) has showed that working extended shifts is associated with increased reporting by the doctors of medical errors, adverse patient events and attentional failures. Clinical Simulation Technology Used To Improve Communication Of Medica
The Institute of Medicine estimates that medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, and poor communication can be a major source of those errors. Now the Clinical Simulation Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis hopes to improve patient safety by using clinical simulators to find the source of miscommunications during medical treatments. Depleted Uranium: PSR Publications and Related Links on Depleted Urani
Commentary and links to information about depleted uranium (DU), "uranium from which the more highly radioactive isotopes have been removed for use in weapons or reactor fuel."Publications discuss the health and environmental effects of DU. Links to websites provide other viewpoints; "PSR does not necessarily endorse the content or opinions contained on these sites."From Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR).
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