Approximately 600,000 cards and personal messages of support were shipped and delivered to service members at military hospitals around the country and at installations overseas this holiday season. This unique partnership between the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes brought the comfort of supportive...
American Red Cross And Pitney Bowes Partnership Brought Holiday Cheer To Wounded Service Members
World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre For Patient Safety Seeks Comment On Proposed New International Patient Safety Solutions
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety and the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety today invited health ministries, health care provider organizations, health care professionals, patient safety advocates, consumers and other interested parties to comment on five proposed, potentially life-saving...
BMA Warns Of Further Junior Doctor Recruitment Problems In 2008, UK
The junior doctor recruitment process in England could go as badly in 2008 as it did in 2007 unless trusts start preparing now, the BMA warns. From this Saturday doctors will be able to apply for training posts in England that start in August 2008. Competition will be more intense than in 2007, with...
Center To Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Launches New Discussion Forum, USA
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has launched CAPCconnect(SM) - the only discussion forum dedicated to palliative care program development and growth. “This new discussion platform is where the palliative care community can get informed, interact with colleagues, and begin to put into...
Differentiating Between Natural And Human-Caused Global Warming
A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean’s surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled at the same time that subtropical and tropical waters warmed. This striking...
Next-Generation Internet Portals Set To Improve Public Safety And Public Health In Canada
The Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources (NRCan), today announced $2 million in funding for a contract with Compusult Limited of Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Under the terms of the competitively awarded...
Improved Quality Of Life Promised As National Nanotechnology Initiative Releases New Strategic Plan
A new strategic plan for the work of the National Nanotechnology Initiative has just been released by the interagency Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Technology with support from the National Nanotechnology...
The Dangers And Drawback Of Drivers On Cell Phones
Motorists who talk on cell phones drive slower on the freeway, pass sluggish vehicles less often and take longer to complete their trips, according to a University of Utah study that suggests drivers on cell phones congest traffic. “At the end of the day, the average person’s commute is longer...
Increased Mortality Specifically Linked To Carbon Dioxide Emissions
A Stanford scientist has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates scores of physical and chemical environmental processes....
Grant To Study Cost Of Patient-Centered Medical Home Received By American College Of Physicians
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has received a Commonwealth Fund grant of nearly $225,000 to study the cost of a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). The grant, part of the Commonwealth Fund’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Initiative, will help underwrite a 10-month study which began...