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The combined impact of low economic growth and decreased investments in agriculture could cause major increases in malnutrition in developing countries, according to new analysis by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The result could be 16 million more undernourished children in 2020. These findings were released today at the annual general meeting of [...]

Cognitive neuroscientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The findings are published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, December 3.
In the first experiment, the head of a shop dummy was fitted with two cameras connected to [...]

The NHS Alliance/Humana PBC Partnership, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence, is among the five providers appointed by the Department of Health to support the PBC Development Framework for Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and practice-based commissioners.
Local areas will be able to get the support they need from skilled organisations, which will help to make [...]

Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) President Daniel Sisto blasted as “absurd policy and a dangerous threat to patient care” a recent ruling by the federal government to prohibit the use of checklists in certain medical settings. The ruling last month by the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) effectively shut down a [...]

A recent Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) analysis of hospital financial data found that more than half of the state’s hospitals lost money or recorded margins of less than 1% in 2006. A separate national comparative study by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the average operating margin of New York’s hospitals [...]

The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined the efficacy of two diagnostic tests used to determine which drugs to prescribe women with invasive breast cancer. According to the Journal, thousands of women with breast cancer might be receiving the wrong treatment because of errors in the two tests predominantly used to determine which drugs to [...]

New research suggests that at any given time, almost 10 percent of the emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics in the United States miss work because of injuries and illnesses they suffered on the job.
A study examining how common these injuries are and tracking new cases of work-related injuries and illnesses in these professionals also [...]

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) on Thursday said that when Congress reconvenes he plans to bring up legislation that would address American Indian health care, KFYR-TV reports. His legislation would provide grants to American Indian reservations and help establish programs to provide long-term health services to American Indians.
Dorgan this week held a public meeting with the [...]

A new strategic plan for the work of the National Nanotechnology Initiative has just been released by the interagency Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Technology with support from the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO). The 2007 NNI Strategic Plan describes the vision, goals, and [...]

The Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources (NRCan), today announced $2 million in funding for a contract with Compusult Limited of Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Under the terms of the competitively awarded contract, the information technology company will build two next-generation portals [...]