Science Education & Policy

BALTIMORE, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Partnership will help Nevada Cancer Institute Funnel Cancer Research to Physicians Physicians and patients of community-based medical practices in Nevada and SW Utah will benefit from a new partnership between Physicians Practice(R), America's Leading Practice Management Journal and Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI). The new partnership will provide resources to help local physicians manage their practices more efficiently, thereby improving patient care. Under this partnership, Physicians Practice will be mailed monthly, beginning this month, to…

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Companies' Joint Technologies Further Unify Information Security From Edge-to-Core Battling Data Breaches; Meets Stringent Compliance Requirements NitroSecurity, Inc. (http://www.nitrosecurity.com), a provider of high performance, unified information security solutions, today announced that it has acquired RippleTech. The combination of NitroSecurity's award winning Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions with RippleTech's Database Activity Monitoring and Log Management solutions,…

BOSTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - ePals to provide Kenyan classrooms with the largest social network for meaningful learning The Kenyan Ministry of Education will provide the opportunity for their students and educators to safely connect with schools around the world through ePals (http://www.epals.com), the largest and fastest growing global network for meaningful learning. Leveraging the safe, protected and collaborative learning and e-mentoring tools available through ePals, Kenyan students and educators can connect with classrooms in 200 countries and territories, conducting cross-…

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and BARCELONA, Spain, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia BV and Ferrer inCode today announced an agreement that will give Ferrer exclusive rights to sell two of Agendia's signature cancer diagnostic services -- MammaPrint(R), a prognostic test that uses a 70-gene signature to indicate risk of breast cancer tumor recurrence, and CupPrint*, a gene expression profiling service which offers a fast and reliable method of identifying the primary tumor site in Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP). Under the exclusive distribution agreement, Ferrer has gained rights to sell the tests…

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Global Line-up Drawn From Over 250 Entries The finalists for Reel Lives: The Cancer Chronicles, the first ever international documentary film competition on cancer, are announced today in a line-up that includes 2007 Oscar winner Freeheld and many other remarkable films from 16 countries worldwide. The finalists were chosen from an impressive group of over 250 entries from 40 countries. The festival will take place 28-30 August during the World Cancer Congress in Geneva. It is organised by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), the…

MUMBAI, India, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Former Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Director Receives Commendation for Outstanding Paper on Rediscovering the joy of Learning Through Stories. Jon Revelos, former Director - Story-based Learning at TIS has been honored with an Emerald Literati Award for Excellence 2008, for his outstanding paper titled 'Igniting instruction through a narrative spark.' The Emerald Literati is a UK-based publisher of management journals and databases. The paper takes up the debate of the analytical versus the anecdotal schools of thought. It argues that the belief of…

A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other sources. In particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 production. Interest in so-called carbon sequestration is growing worldwide. However, no large-scale projects…

WARSAW, Poland, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Preliminary findings from a landmark independent, academic study on the value of project management, released today at the Project Management Institute's biennial research conference, clearly demonstrate that business and organizational performance can be significantly improved through the practice of project management. The study, "Researching the Value of Project Management," is "unequivocal in its findings and independently validates what we've believed all along," said Edwin J. Andrews, Ph.D., director of Academic and Educational Programs &…

BRUSSELS, KIEL, Germany and ZEIST, The Netherlands, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- EU Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx presented the first European Privacy Seal to search engine Ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com) today. Ixquick is now the first search engine to be formally approved by the EU. The European Privacy Seal guarantees that IT products and services comply with the demanding EU laws and regulations on privacy and data security. The award is issued by EuroPriSe, a consortium of nine privacy organisations backed by the European Commission. Privacy on the Internet is increasingly under…

LONDON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- An online NHS Health Guide for people with diabetes has been launched on the national NHS website, NHS Choices http://www.nhs.uk The guide, http://www.nhs.uk/Pathways/diabetes/Pages/Landing.aspx, takes patients through each stage, from before diagnosis, through to how to live and self-manage the condition. Throughout the next year, NHS Choices will be rolling out more guides from the 60 most common long-term conditions, giving people the information they require to make their own choices and decisions about their treatment. NHS Choices has also released…