Science Education & Policy

New research has revealed that peoples’ personality types predicts their donations to charities and noble causes. In a sample of almost 1000 participants the researchers found that people with a pro-social personality gave more money to charities and other noble causes. For instance, with donations to ‘third world organizations’, 52% of people with a pro-social personality gave money, compared to 42% of people with an individualistic personality and only 21% of people with a competitive personality. Overall pro-socials donate more to all kinds of charitable and noble organizations –…

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- - Forty-five Prestigious Journals to be Launched on ScienceDirect in Response to Customer Demand Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced that 45 French-language medical journals from Elsevier Masson will be available on ScienceDirect beginning January 3, 2008. The titles, including Feuillets de Radiologie, Journal de Chirurgie and La Press Medicale, represent a wide range of high-quality journals and complement the 27 Editions Scientifique et Medicales Elsevier (ESME) titles…

ZUG, Switzerland, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG's portfolio company Vitaboost International BV launches its new website with online shop today. The new online shop enables customers from all over Europe to order Vitaboost products online. In addition, Vitaboost products will be available in stores from Friday 14th December. The first Vitaboost product is the "Vitaboost Activator", a healthy energy drink product for everyday use with a base of orange, grape and lime juice enriched with Ginkgo Biloba, Taurin, Ginseng, Vitamin B Complex, Vitamin C, Caffeine, Schisandra and Guarana.…

BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Crossroads Institute for medical education today announced it will develop new educational programs for healthcare professionals focused on improving the treatment of women with cardiovascular disease and the prevention of amputation. The announcement was made by the newly formed committee of the Crossroads Educational Research Program (CERP) at the Crossroads Institute in Brussels, Belgium, which is focused on providing the latest in medical education to advance the treatment of patients with cardiac and vascular disease and is…

LONDON, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The MS Society has today (Wednesday) spoken out in support of a call for better care for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) following new research that suggests people with neurological conditions are left in an information void. Results of the Taking Control survey, published jointly by the Neurological Alliance, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and Ask About Medicines, highlight how the UK healthcare system is failing people with MS by not ensuring access to appropriate information and specialist advice. Jayne Spink,…

LONDON, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- - "By 2020 the Global Carbon Market Could be Worth EUR 240-450 Billion" says Lord Nicholas Stern, Vice Chairman of IDEAGlobal Group, in the inaugural issue of CARBONfirst The year-end in climate change is dominated by the Bali conference. In the inaugural issue of CARBONfirst, Lord Stern outlines his views on the impact of the summit on the global carbon market. "The main objective of the summit is to agree on a roadmap for a Kyoto successor by the end of 2009". CARBONfirst is IDEAcarbon's strategic advice service. CARBONfirst provides timely, customised…

Measures to protect astronauts from health risks caused by space radiation will be important during extended missions to the moon or Mars, say researchers in a paper currently online in Experimental Neurology. Using a mouse model designed to reveal even slight changes in brain cell populations, scientists found radiation appeared to target a type of stem cell in an area of the brain believed to be important for learning and mood control. The findings — from a team of researchers from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the…

CONCORD, New Hampshire, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - NAC Director Honored for Out-of-Band Architecture That Leverages Existing Networks Bradford Networks, a leading provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, was named an SC Magazine Innovator of the Year for its NAC Director solution -- an out-of-band, agent-based access control policy management engine that leverages existing network assets. In the December 2007 issue of the magazine, SC Magazine Technology Editor Peter Stephenson wrote, "Tactically NAC Director pushes access control policy enforcement to the edge of…

CHESHIRE, Connecticut, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - Data Presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting - Publication Number: 840 Soliris(R) (eculizumab) therapy reduced hemolysis, fatigue, thromboses (blood clots) and transfusion requirements in patients with a rare blood disorder called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), including those who might have been expected to have less severe disease, according to data from an ongoing open-label clinical study presented today at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology Meeting in Atlanta. The…

PITTSBURGH, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Panopto, Inc. announced today that its CourseCast lecture-capture technology-developed and first implemented at Carnegie Mellon University-is being made available to qualified academic institutions free of charge. CourseCast's easy-to-deploy lecture-capture technology enables educators to capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet. CourseCast gives students on-demand access to indexed lectures and course material, enabling them to experience or revisit entire lectures, or to focus on segments of their choice. CourseCast…