SPA.... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tips for Preventing Weight Re-gain Anyone who has tried to lose weight knows that the battle isn't over once the weight is off...maintaining that weight loss can actually be the tough part! Researchers with the National Health and Examination Survey (NHANES) recently completed a study in ...
Amateur Economists (Free subscription) | yesterday
The use of electronic medical records has been touted as an enormous economic benefit in terms of cost savings as well as a boon to increasing patient safety. So why aren’t more doctors using them? Although many doctors employed by larger medical entities are making use of EMRs because the costs of implementing the system [...]
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TiVo, the popular DVR company, is partnering with Amazon.com to allow TV viewers to buy products while watching their recorded TV shows. This is an innovative application of new technology, and a great idea all around. Customers get the benefit of simplified purchasing. Amazon.com gets the benefit of increased purchases. TiVo gets the benefit of [...]
Feministe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lauren posted yesterday on a disgusting story about an orthopedic surgeon who has been placing temporary tattoos on his patients during surgery. The shit hit the fan when this asshole placed a red rose tattoo under the panty line of a female patient, who didn’t discover the tattoo until her husband saw it. Lauren has [...]
[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Mobile-review have posted their review of the Nokia 7510 Supernova . Here is their final impression The 7510 Supernova isnt a particularly loud phone, in many situations you will find its alert...
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
DNA analysis can more than double the chance that burglars and car thieves are caught. But costs and a lack of lab capacity have kept it out of wide use.
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Merck & Co briefly turned positive on Monday and those of Schering Plough sharply pared losses after the outcome of a new study of their Vytorin cholesterol fighter was announced....
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp of the University of Iowa Law School has written on The Antitrust Standard for Unlawful Exclusionary Conduct. ABSTRACT: This essay considers the general definition of unlawful exclusionary practices under Section 2 of the...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
PARIS, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ProLogis (NYSE: ), the world's largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities, announced today that it has leased 252,000 square feet (23,400 square meters) of modern distribution space in central France to Schenker S.A., a French subsidiary of the Schenker Group and a leading provider of third-party logistics services. The company will occupy...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Police Enforcement Strategies to Prevent Crime in Hot Spot Areas (PDF; 384 KB) Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 24 he results of this systematic review support the assertion that focusing police efforts on high-activity crime places can be used to good effect in preventing crime. Seven of the nine evaluations [...]
Economist's View (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Clive Crook recently: A startling and profoundly important fact about the US economy has received surprisingly little attention. The educational quality of the country's workers is starting to decline - not just relatively (because other countries are catching up and...
Later On (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Dana Perino, you’ll no doubt recall, said that global warming would bring many benefits, including fewer health risks from cold weather. But today this from ThinkProgress: “Climate change will pose ’substantial’ health threats including heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens in coming decades,” according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition, “‘it is [...]
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The Overuse, Underuse, and Misuse of Health Care Source: Congressional Budget Office From CBO Director’s Blog: I am testifying before the Senate Finance Committe today on overuse, underuse, and misuse of health care. The webcast is posted here. Today’s remarks focus on several key points: 1. Rising health care costs represent the central fiscal challenge facing the country, [...]
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
• U.S. losing the race for talented immigrants • Washington must update immigration policy to allow more skilled immigrants to work in the U.S. In 2007, Microsoft opened a software development center in Vancouver, Canada, in part to have access to highly skilled workers who are presently prohibited from residing in the United States. Microsoft’s recent Canadian venture [...]
Independent.ie - European RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Barclays, Britain's third biggest bank, could only sell 19pc of its £4bn share issue to its existing investors and take-up of HBOS's £4bn is set to be much lower.
