ESA's Earth Explorer gravity satellite on show
... The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer(GOCE), the first core Earth Explorer mission to be developed as part of ESA's Living Planet Programme, will significantly advance our knowledge of how the Earth works and provide insight into ocean circulation, sea-level change, climate change, volcanism and earthquakes. .....ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
... Throughout the Arctic Arc expedition, which marks the International Polar Year, Alan Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been collecting snow-depth data for ESA's CryoSat-2 mission. As seasoned polar explorers, they are used to dealing with the extremely harsh, dangerous and physically demanding conditions encountered during their three and...Decision aid tool could cut the number of Caesarean sections by 4000 a year
... ... Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Dundee recruited 742 women at four maternity units in the UK where the rates of caesarean section ranged from 22%-25% - approximately the UK...Study shows dramatic increase in Caesarean sections
... ... Report author, Colleen O'Leary, from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health...Researchers urge caution in using ESAs for cancer-related anemia
... The article by Dr. Terence R. Lappin and colleagues of Queen's University, Belfast, cites evidence that using ESAs to treat non-chemotherapy-related anemia in cancer patients could increase the risk of death, thromboembolic events, and pe...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
... Carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the images that Sentinel-1 will provide are particularly well suited for applications based on mapping sea ice. High-resolution ice charts, monitoring icebergs and forecasting ice conditions are examples of important application areas that ar...LIALDA -- the first oral once-daily mesalamine for ulcerative colitis -- now available
... LIALDA is available to patients by prescription for oral administration in dosages of 2.4...ESA contribution to International Polar Year 2007-2008
... Thousands of scientists from more than 60 countries will be conducting research during this two-year programme. IPY 2007-2008 will be an intense, internationally coordinated campaign of polar observations, interdisciplinary research and analysis that will enhance our understanding of ph...ESA's first Swedish astronaut to fly to the ISS
... With his six crewmates, he will fly to the International Space Station on a mission to add a new section to its truss structure and to reroute electrical power supply and thermal control from its new set of solar arrays and radiators....Discovery will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 03:36 CET (02:36 UTC) on 8 December....Better training needed to reduce emergency caesareans
... ... A recent UK study found that decisions made by senior (consultant) obstetric staff are important in determining whether a second stage caesarean section is the best method of delivery for women with delay in advanced labour. It found that a consultant obstetrician who performed a vaginal assessment was mor...People often forgo using lifesaving beta blockers despite health insurance
... This low rate of adherence is disturbing, since numerous large-scale clinical trials have proven that beta blockers can reduce the risk of future heart attacks, the researchers said. They said the finding also suggests that cost may not be the only issue tha...ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
... The experiments in which Ansari will participate are in the area of human physiology: from the search of the effects of space radiation on the crew, to the investigation of the mechanisms governing the development of muscle atrophy i...UT Southwestern-led study finds doctors' judgment as important as guideline for Cesarean sections
DALLAS U.S. hospitals have long been required to be able to start emergency Cesarean sections within 30 minutes, but neither compliance with this "decision-to-incision" time nor the associated rate of complications have ever been clinically measured. ... ... "Clearly, physician judgment plays a crit...ESA donates mosaic of global images taken by Envisat to United Nations
The European Space Agency today donated a composite satellite image of global land cover provided by its Envisat satellite to the United Nations in Geneva, as a testimony to the current state of our planet, to be handed down to future generations.... The image will be exhibited permanently in the new access building by the Pregny gate in the Palais des Nations compound. Mr Sergei Ordzhonikidze,...ESA and Spot Image set precedence with data sharing
ESA and Spot Image, the company that distributes data commercially from the French Space Agency's (CNES) Spot satellites, signed a multiyear agreement, which kicked off in January 2006, permitting ESA-accepted Category-1 projects to order more than 10 000 images per year from the Spot 1, 2, 3 and 4 satellites.... ... Category-1 users from Europe, Canada and Africa can submit proposals for the use...High rates of caesarean delivery may harm mothers and newborns
High rates of caesarean delivery in Latin America can be associated with a greater risk of maternal and newborn illness and death, report the authors of a paper published online today by The Lancet (Tuesday May 23, 2006)....... Caesarean delivery rates are increasing worldwide. During 2005, Jose Villar (World Health Organization) and colleagues assessed the association between rates of caesarean...Panel finds insufficient evidence to recommend for or against maternal-request Caesarean delivery
An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health announced today that the available information comparing the risks and benefits of Caesarean delivery on maternal request (CDMR) versus planned vaginal birth do not provide the basis for a recommendation in either direction.... ... ......The panel defined CDMR as a Caesarean delivery for a pregnancy with a single baby at the mothe...NIH holds state-of-the-science conference: Caesarean Delivery on Maternal Request, March 27-29, 2006
...Reporters who are unable to attend Wednesday's 2:00 p.m. press...conference can call in by dialing 1-800-857-7003, and entering passcode...4948. This will be similar to a conference call, in which all callers...can hear all questions and answers, and pose questions to the panel....... The press conference will be broadcast live via satellite at the...following coordinates:...... ...Transponde...Troubling increase in repeat cesarean delivery, inadequate explanations
SEATTLE March 8, 2006 A survey conducted to determine the basis for the increased number of repeat cesarean births in the United States found that nearly 10 percent of women had undocumented reasons for the surgery. This study is published in the March issue of Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care....... National statistics reported a 63 percent decline in the rate of vaginal birth after cesarean d...ESA confirms CryoSat recovery mission
At the latest meeting of the European Space Agency's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA's Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2....... The launch of the CryoSat spacecraft was unfortunately aborted on 8 October 2005 due to a malfunction of its Rockot launche...First long-duration mission for an ESA astronaut onboard the ISS
ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany will soon become the first European to undertake a long-duration mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS) following his dispatch on the next Shuttle mission (STS-121), currently scheduled for May....... That mission, which is due to last six to seven months, will mark many important milestones for European astronauts, European science and Euro...Anxious fathers make caesarean ops more painful for mothers
Fathers who are anxious during a caesarean operation may increase the pain experienced by the mother after the delivery of their baby, according to new research published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine....... In a study involving 65 women scheduled for an elective caesarean, researchers found that the way their birth partners felt during the operation was related to the woman's own levels...Japan's ALOS in orbit: ESA will deliver its data to European researchers
ALOS, Japan's latest Earth Observation satellite, was successfully launched at 02:33 CET (10:33 Japan time) on 24 January. Environmental data and imagery from ALOS will be provided to European and African users through a cooperative agreement between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)....... The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) is a four-tonne satellite dedicated to lan...Something in the air? ESA service warns asthma sufferers by mobile phone
We all wonder what is in the air for 2006 - but for people with asthma and other breathing problems, advance knowledge of air pollution levels is very important. An ESA-backed project is forecasting daily forecasts via text message to selected individuals in parts of London and the London borough of Croydon.... ... As the video above recounts, the service anticipated especially high levels of air...As Montreal Conference considers deforestation issues, ESA presents space solution
As the future of Earth's forests moved up the agenda at the United Nations Climate Change Conference - negotiating a post-Kyoto strategy to combat global warming - ESA and its national collaborators presented delegates with promising results from projects using satellites to identify wide-area forest retreat and expansion....... The planet's climate is moving into uncharted territory, as our burn...ESA participating in UN's Montreal summit working for a better atmosphere
Delegations from 190 nations will attend next week's United Nations summit in Montreal, Canada, to begin negotiating a post-Kyoto Protocol strategy to restrict emissions of heat-trapping gases that drive climate change. Joining them will be ESA, to share results from satellite-based services developed to support the Protocol....... More than 10 000 representatives of national governments, interna...Implementing European Space Policy: Key ESA/EC agreement on Earth Observation data signed today
An agreement on space-based information services and access to, and provision of, Earth Observation data was signed today by ESA and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The signature took place at ESRIN, the ESA Earth Observation Centre in Frascati, Italy....... Dr Volker Liebig, Director of ESA's Earth Observation Programme, signed the agreement on the 'Specific arrangement con...Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for CryoSat validation
The CryoSat validation programme took another important step forward on Wednesday with the official handover of a unique set of data that had been collected by the intrepid Dutch Polar Explorer Marc Cornelissen on behalf of ESA during his recent expedition to the North Pole....... In March this year, Marc Cornelissen left Cape Arctichesky in northern Russia to lead the Pole Track 2005 expedition...Lowell receives Smith Family Award for Excellence in Medical Resarch
BOSTON Bradford B. Lowell, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Division of Endocrinology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has received the Smith Family Award for Excellence in Medical Research from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. ......The award, which was created in 2002 to recognize unique, outstanding contributions among particular scientific disciplines, is periodic...