Science Education & Policy

LONDON, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Prospects is expanding its Events Division with the acquisition of a portfolio of graduate recruitment events from associate company RECEX LLP. The portfolio includes the annual Summer Graduate Recruitment Fair at Earl's Court, London, held each June, and the Autumn Graduate Recruitment Fair at Old Billingsgate in October. Both events put thousands of recent graduates in contact with future prospective employers. Prospects has been working with RECEX for the past two years on the development of a series of regional skills events which include the…

LAVAL, Quebec, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - A New Generation of Memory Protection OVOS Natural Health Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BELLUS Health Inc. (NASDAQ: BLUS; TSX: BLU), announces that VIVIMIND(TM), the company's first natural health product, is available starting today on the Internet and progressively at over 2,000 retail points of sale, including major drug, grocery and mass merchandise stores and natural health stores across Canada. It is expected to be available at more than 3,000 points of sale by year-end. Targeted to aging baby boomers, VIVIMIND(TM) protects memory…

SAN MATEO, California and LEEDS, England, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Evaxyx Siperian Services Framework Scales Critical Data Assets across Departments, Divisions, and Geographies for Greater Enterprise-Wide Decision Making Siperian, Inc. - developers of an industry leading master data management (MDM) platform - and Evaxyx - a leading data integration consulting firm - today announced a strategic partnership designed to deliver faster ROI to Siperian users. As a part of this relationship, Evaxyx has developed the Evaxyx Siperian Services Framework (ESSF) - a set of industry best…

MADRID, Spain, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR), a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced that Luis Torres has joined the company as managing director, market development southern Europe. In this newly created role, he is responsible for working with public policy officials, industry colleagues and solar advocates to grow solar markets throughout southern Europe. Torres joins SunPower with more than 10 years of expertise in the solar power industry. Prior to joining SunPower, he held several key positions…

The ocean as an ecological and physical system is unmatched in its complexity but researchers are getting closer. A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature – pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters near Hawaii that lack the nitrogen and phosphorous necessary to support high biological production. The researchers are harnessing the power of the ocean to conduct their experiments, using the up-and-down motion of waves to pump deep water to the surface. Their next step is to create a…

Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for Vice President should he win the November elections, is a worrisome character from the point of view of science education. It is hard to tell whether Palin herself is a creationist or not and, frankly, that’s far less important than the policy positions she holds in the matter. (Though, of course, having a Vice President who is deluded about basic aspects of reality would not be exactly reassuring. Oh, right, we already have had something along those lines for the past eight years, though Dick Cheney’s most dangerous delusions were not about who created…

WASHINGTON, September 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - At One Year, Angioplasty and Stenting Matches Bypass Surgery for Safety and Effectiveness in Patients with Complex Medical Condition Patients with both diabetes and advanced blockages in at least three heart vessels will find good news in new findings announced today from the CARDia trial, says The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). The one-year findings of the new study indicate that these patients can safely choose to undergo angioplasty and stenting rather than open-heart surgery. At the European Society of Cardiology…

WASHINGTON, September 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - One-Year Data Find Angioplasty and Stenting Safe and Effective in Patients for Whom Standard Therapy Has Been Open-Heart Surgery Data announced today from the landmark SYNTAX trial indicate that patients with very complex coronary artery disease can safely choose to be treated with angioplasty and drug-eluting stents rather than open-heart surgery, says The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). The one-year results of SYNTAX also show that most patients with left main and multi-vessel disease who undergo angioplasty and…

GENEVA, September 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - Reel Lives: The Cancer Chronicles Film Festival awards prizes to top filmmakers Chrigu from Switzerland has been awarded the Grand Prize in the first ever Reel Lives: Cancer Chronicles Film Festival at a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland. Runners up prizes were also awarded to The Truth About Cancer (USA) for Best Reportage, The Art of Living (India) for Best Personal Story, The Children of Avenir (Morocco) for Best Organizational Film and Hookah (Israel) for the best Public Service Announcement. Award winners were chosen from an impressive line-up of 33…

The autistic disorder was first described, more than sixty years ago, by Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA), who created the new label ´early infantile autism´. At the same time an Austrian scientist, Dr. Hans Asperger, described a milder form of the disorder that became known as Asperger Syndrome, characterised by higher cognitive abilities and more normal language function. Today, both disorders are classified in the continuum of ´Pervasive Developmental Disorders´ (PDD), more often referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The prevalence of (classic) autism in the…