What is one of the biggest complaints firefighters have about their job? Its their gloves. While the current gloves are designed to provide protection against extreme temperatures, they are often bulky and inflexible. Through a recent Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant, researchers at North Carolina State University will attempt to redesign the traditional firefighter [...]

Research published on bmj.com today reports that doctors could forecast a patients risk of receiving a domestic abuse diagnosis years in advance by using electronic medical records as an early warning system.
Dr Ben Reis from the Childrens Hospital Boston Informatics Program and Harvard Medical School is the lead author. Researchers investigated whether the amount [...]

Women have a particularly high stake in the health care reform debate because they “interact with the health care system more often” than men, “and so are more vulnerable to a system with soaring costs and with restrictions that hurt women especially,” the Christian Science Monitor reports. Although more men than women are uninsured [...]

Autism, depression, anxiety. Antipsychotic drug side effects. What are the genetic and environmental factors that underlie and contribute to these complex problems? And how do genes and environment interact to shape them?
To seek answers, the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health has named the University of North Carolina [...]

A scientist at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has received one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)s top awards the 2009 NIH Directors Pioneer Award. The prestigious prize carries with it funding for total costs of up to $4.7 million over five years, and is designed to support the work [...]

Nearly of 300 of the worlds leading researchers focused on the problem of prostate cancer will begin a threeday meeting today to discuss the latest scientific data and breakthroughs in prostate cancer. The meeting, held in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe in Nevada, is the 16th Scientific Retreat sponsored by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). [...]

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) expressed its deep disappointment at a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to uphold a complaint about its Asbestos The hidden killer awareness campaign.
The ASA has upheld one complaint from a single source challenging HSE on the numbers of workers it quoted as dying as a result [...]

Cardiogenesis Corporation (Pink Sheets CGCP), a market leader in laser transmyocardial revascularization (TMR), announced that it sponsored an educational symposium yesterday in conjunction with the 21st Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Francisco.
The symposium, titled “Opportunities in Refractory Angina” was attended by over 80 cardiologists. The Program Chairman was Christopher J. White MD, [...]

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe in New York on Monday signed a partnership agreement with several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) pledging to work towards eliminating mothertochild transmission of HIV in Africa, Agence FrancePresse reports. Presidents Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended the signing ceremony.
“Signatories include Columbia Universitys Earth Institute led by [...]

After an indepth selection process, Diabetes UK has chosen three project partners for the User Involvement in Local Diabetes Care Project NHS Lincolnshire, NHS Hammersmith & Fulham, and North Mersey Diabetes Network (consisting of Liverpool PCT, NHS Sefton and NHS Knowsley).
These organisations were selected for the diverse challenges they face as well as their [...]