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Public Release: 9-May-2008
Productivity rises when companies are facing closure
In companies that are slated to be shut down, productivity increases during the phase-out period itself. When management is busy dealing with matters other than daily operations, employees shoulder a greater responsibility for their work -- and efficiency is enhanced. According to business economist Magnus Hansson at Örebro University in Sweden, this shows that it is possible to boost productivity considerably without investing.
Contact: Ingrid Lundegardh
ingrid.lundegardh@oru.se
Swedish Research Council
Public Release: 8-May-2008
ACP says Medicare cuts will hurt physicians in small practices
Noting that many physicians across the country who lead small practices are at a business breaking point, David M. Dale, MD, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians testified today before the House Small Business Committee. Dr. Dale emphasized that practices are medicine's small businesses, where much of their revenue is tied directly to Medicare's flawed reimbursement rates and formulas.
Contact: David Kinsman
dkinsman@acponline.org
202-261-4554
American College of Physicians
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Nature
CSHL scientists are part of consortium that sequences platypus genome
By any account, the platypus is an odd creature. It's got a broad, rubbery bill that brings to mind a duck...but it swims more like a beaver...yet it lays eggs and can inject poisonous venom, like a reptile. No wonder it was considered an elaborate hoax by scientists who examined the first specimen pelt shipped to England from the colony of New South Wales in 1799.
Contact: Jim Bono
bono@cshl.edu
516-367-8455
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Games for Health
Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine
Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to idle pursuits. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries through a competitive protein-folding computer game.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Nvidia Corp., Intel Corp.
Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@u.washington.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Newest GREET model updates environmental impacts
The newest version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation model from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will provide researchers with even more tools to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of new transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Brock Cooper
bcooper@anl.gov
630-252-5565
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Public Release: 8-May-2008
International Journal of Management Practice
Programmed death boosts business
As credits crunch, recession bites and business struggle to stay primed, researchers in Spain suggest that a more surgical approach to management and business practice is needed if a company is to survive. Writing in the International Journal of Management Practice from Inderscience Publishers, the team explains how businesses could take a cue from nature to them restructure.
Contact: Fernando Fernández-González
fgfernando@msn.com
Inderscience Publishers
Public Release: 7-May-2008
UAB first in US to offer speedier precise cancer radiotherapy
RapidArc is the next-generation of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) offering radiation delivery up to eight times faster than conventional IMRT. The first US patient to be given the new therapy is an Alabama man with early-stage prostate cancer whose treatment started May 6.
Contact: Troy Goodman
tdgoodman@uab.edu
205-934-8938
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health
Patients with chronic illness benefit from telehealth intervention
Telehealth, using telecommunication technology to deliver health care, is increasingly being used to improve the delivery and availability of health care services to patients. A University of Missouri researcher found that patients who received a telehealth intervention from care providers had significantly delayed hospital readmission rates when compared to patients who received traditional care.
US Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service
Contact: Emily Smith
SmithEA@missouri.edu
573-882-3346
University of Missouri-Columbia
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Tel Aviv University finds connection between mental fitness and multi-lingualism
Can speaking another language slow the aging process in the mind?
Contact: George Hunka
ghunka@aftau.org
212-742-9070
American Friends of Tel Aviv University
Public Release: 7-May-2008
HortScience
Alternatives to ozone-depleting pesticide studied
In 2000, the widely used pesticide methy bromide was classified as an ozone-depleting substance, and in 2005 MB was banned in the United States and all European Union countries. In response to the need for safe and effective alternatives to methyl bromide, researchers at the Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y Leon in Valladolid, Spain, undertook a 3-year project to study new methods of weed control in strawberry nurseries.
Contact: Michael W. Neff
mwneff@ashs.org
703-836-4606
American Society for Horticultural Science
Public Release: 7-May-2008
HortScience
Silicon's effect on sunflowers studied
As the popularity of sunflowers grows among commercial growers and everyday gardeners, scientists are looking for new supplements and growing methods to enhance production and quality of this celebrated annual.
Contact: Michael W. Neff
mwneff@ashs.org
703-836-4606
American Society for Horticultural Science
Public Release: 7-May-2008
HortTechnology
Over the back fence: gardeners get advice from neighbors, friends
Staff at University of Minnesota Extension have published results of a survey that concludes that the majority of backyard gardeners get their planting and plant information informally -- most often from friends, neighbors and local garden centers.
Contact: Michael W. Neff
mwneff@ashs.org
703-836-4606
American Society for Horticultural Science
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar floods seen from space
Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on May 1, 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday, devastating the country.
Contact: Mariangela D'Acunto
mariangela.dacunto@esa.int
39-069-418-0856
European Space Agency
Public Release: 7-May-2008
American Journal of Psychiatry
Mental disorders cost society billions in unearned income
Major mental disorders cost the nation at least $193 billion annually in lost earnings alone, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
Contact: Colleen Labbe
NIMHPress@nih.gov
301-443-4536
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
Public Release: 7-May-2008
X-rays power discoveries at Chicago's Field Museum
Digital medical imaging and information technology is helping The Field Museum discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. A computed radiography system enables the museum—for the first time—to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless artifacts in its Anthropology collection. The museum is also using a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) to manage, view and store the growing collection of digital images.
Contact: Greg Borzo
gborzo@fieldmuseum.org
312-665-7106
Field Museum
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Journal of Gambling Studies
Estimated 750,000 problem gamblers among America's youth
Gambling activity is widespread among US adolescents and young adults ages 14 through 21, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
NIH/National Institute on Mental Health
Contact: Kathleen Weaver
weaver@ria.buffalo.edu
716-887-2585
University at Buffalo
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Cell Metabolism
Hunger hormone: Makes food more attractive
A new brain-imaging study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University reveals that ghrelin -- a stomach hormone, acts on specific regions of the brain to enhance our response to food related cues and eating for pleasure. This study, published in the May 7 issue of Cell Metabolism, is critical to advance understanding and treating obesity, a condition affecting millions worldwide.
Contact: Anita Kar
anita.kar@mcgill.ca
514-398-3376
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Public Release: 6-May-2008
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
Data presented at the APA Annual Meeting
Data presented today on Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s investigational drug candidate, iloperidone, included its 4-week, short-term Phase III trial, as well as a pooled analysis of three long-term, 52-week trials, studying the efficacy and safety of iloperidone. Iloperidone is a 5HT2/D2 antagonist ("atypical") antipsychotic currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of schizophrenia.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals
Contact: Daniela Pedron
daniela_pedron@cohnwolfe.com
212-798-9728
Cohn & Wolfe
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Location! Location! Location technologies are improving NHS care
Location technologies are improving NHS care, but compatibility problems could limit their impact.
Contact: Jim Sutton
jim@proofcommunication.com
084-568-01867
National Physical Laboratory
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Heart
Women and heart attack: Study finds failure to recognize symptoms, failure to treat appropriately
The gender gap is alive and well in heart disease, a new international study finds, with women differing from men on everything from symptoms to treatment in both heart attack and severe chest pain. One of the most striking findings: women were twice as likely as men to have "normal" or "mild" results on an exam of their heart's blood vessels, with no single blockage taking up more than 50 percent of a blood vessel.
Sanofi-Aventis
Contact: Kara Gavin
kegavin@umich.edu
734-764-2220
University of Michigan Health System
Public Release: 5-May-2008
New Clorox disinfectant is EPA registered to kill both known types of MRSA
While MRSA has been an issue in health-care settings for years, CA-MRSA outbreaks in the community have been on the rise, with the greatest risk in community settings such as fitness clubs, in sports teams, at schools and daycare centers. In May, the Clorox Co. will launch Clorox Pro Quaternary All-Purpose Disinfectant Cleaner, a disinfectant that is EPA registered to kill germs, including Healthcare-associated and Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA).
Contact: Carlisle Campbell
carlisle.campbell@ketchum.com
202-835-9431
Ketchum DC
Public Release: 5-May-2008
Sign Language Studies
'Deaf by God' tried in Old Bailey records
Deaf people on trial were granted the right to an interpreter as early as 1725, according to Old Bailey records examined by UCL (University College London) scientists. The use of family and friends to interpret court proceedings later switched to deaf teachers and eventually written testimony, which may have disadvantaged the less educated "deaf and dumb" at the very time that British Sign Language was emerging.
ESRC
Contact: Jenny Gimpel
44-077-475-65056
University College London
Public Release: 5-May-2008
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Moms have few interactions with their infants during TV time
Infants who are exposed to television and video in low socio-economic households tend to have limited verbal interactions with their mothers, according to a new study led by Alan L. Mendelsohn, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and director of clinical research for the divisions of general and developmental-behavioral pediatrics in the department of pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine.
Contact: Pamela McDonnell
pamela.mcdonnell@nyumc.org
NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine
Public Release: 5-May-2008
Physical Review Journals
A gentle touch for better control, a quantum mechanical con, and milestone PRL papers
Physicists find that a gentle touch can help control particles and other objects better than a heavy hand; quantum mechanics leads to a novel con game.
Contact: James Riordon
riordon@aps.org
301-209-3238
American Physical Society
Public Release: 5-May-2008
American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 30, 2008
The American Chemical Society's News Service Weekly PressPac contains reports from 36 major peer-reviewed journals on chemistry, health, medicine, energy, environment, food, nanotechnology and other hot topics.
Contact: Michael Woods
m_woods@acs.org
202-872-4400
American Chemical Society
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