Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...t initial donations of clothing and accessories to stock the Web site store they plan to debut in fall 2009. The Fashion for Good Roundtable is sponsored by Alta Roma, the fashion association in Rome. The biannual roundtable, formed in 2002, brings together leaders of the fashion and non-profit worlds t...Clinical trial coordinators need more financial conflict-of-interest training
...rest in a trial and an investigator's ownership of stock in a sponsoring company. Clinical trial coordinators usually conduct most of the informed consent process by explaining to potential participants such details of the study as possible health benefits and risks. But more frequently now, the talk also ...Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
...g questions: whether it is worth citizens' time to stock supplies needed for a home shelter, how urgently s...ncy-management organizations recommend that people stock their homes with a couple dozen categories of emergency supplies," said Florig of Carnegie Mellon's...Genomic tests improve prediction of breast cancer response to chemotherapy, hormonal therapy
...es. The University of Texas Board of Regents owns stock in Nuvera. These arrangements are managed in accordance with M. D. Anderson's conflict of interest policies....Health facility births key to substantially reducing maternal mortality worldwide
...rtnership, Francisco Songane, states: "Let us take stock of the past 20 years: We have not made Motherhood Safer--as promised in Nairobi in 1987. In fact, the rate of maternal deaths is the same or worse in some parts of the world like Africa. Decision-makers must act now to ensure that every delivery i...NJIT offers new certificate to fight digital and physical terrorism
...tical networks such as power distribution systems, stock markets, airline systems and more will be taught. ...Spinoff company based on technology developed at OHSU enters new business phase
...developing products for clinical use and sale. The stock received for this investment also was donated to O...he future from annual dividends and later when the stock is sold. The transaction is considered to be unusual due to the size of this initial investment from...Mega-brands have mega influence on dietary behavior
...son also points out that, "it is more efficient to stock one or two mega-brands with their high sales velocity off the shelf than a number of lesser brands that are slow sellers. In this Darwinian process, mega-brands are the winners." "Their greater profitability (versus the lesser brands) is the result n...Medical centers vary in disclosing conflicts of interest
...sulting contract to an investigator's ownership of stock in the sponsor. A number of agencies, such as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), have recommended that one part of managing financial conflict of interest is to include information about it in the consent process that occurs between...Avantogen and Innovate merge key oncology program, RP101, RP101
...isfied by the issue of 32 million shares of common stock in Innovate to Avantogen Limited which will then own approximately 54% of the US listed Innovate. The transaction is subject to both Innovate and Avantogen shareholders' approval. Subject to these approvals, the acquisition is expected to be complete...The Wistar Institute licenses rubella vaccine seed stock to Microgen of Russia
...tute announced today that it has licensed the seed stock for its rubella vaccine to Microgen of Russia for ...tries. "We are pleased to make available the seed stock of our rubella vaccine to the Russian Federation and the N.I.S.," says Russel E. Kaufman, M.D., pres...ESA participating in UN's Montreal summit working for a better atmosphere
...ories to offset emissions against increases in the stock of carbon stored in vegetation, especially forests. What the Protocol requires for such offsetting to take place is annual reporting of land use changes especially afforestation, reforestation and deforestation (ARD) - associated with shifts in the...Mouthguards: Rolls Royce of mouthguard line provides maximum injury protection
...ast as long. Custom-made (Type III) Superior to stock and boil-and bite and offers the best protection, fit and comfort level because it is made from a cast to fit teeth....How can physicians assist in the investigation of bioterrorism or other biocrimes?
...who poisoned her coworkers by putting a laboratory stock of a harmful bacterium called Shigella dysenteriae (which causes dysentery) into muffins, the deliberate poisoning of salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella typhimurium (which causes food poisoning) to skew an election for political ga...What don't we know? Science presents the great unsolved scientific mysteries of our time
...tion of its 125th anniversary, Science has taken stock of some of the most important, yet-unanswered scientific questions and delved into 25 of them for a closer look at just what we do and don't yet know about our universe. Questions like these show us how far science has come in explaining the natural ...Seven deadly sins: A new look at society through an old lens
...t part does envy play in the apparently spiralling stock of personal debt in the UK, which last year passed the 1 trillion mark? Looking at data from the British Household Panel Survey, Stephen McKay finds that the average man has borrowed close to 5,000 while the average women owes around 3,000. What's mo...