http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- It could take weeks before health officials know exactly which pistachio products may be tainted with salmonella, but they've already issued a sweeping warning to avoid eating the nuts or foods containing them. http://www.physorg.com/news157783218.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:40:49 EST news157783218 Older women who live alone are vulnerable to unwanted intrusions in their homes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Caregivers of older women often evaluate crime risk and home security, but fail to identify women's intentions to reduce intrusion risk. In a new study, a University of Missouri professor has found that in order to feel safe at home, older women need to recognize safety risks and perceive themselves as capable of preventing intrusions. http://www.physorg.com/news157734075.html Other Sciences Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:01:45 EST news157734075 (AP) -- More people have been arrested in recent years for sexually soliciting youths online, but the sharp increase comes from better enforcement, and the Internet remains a relatively safe social environment, researchers said in a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news157701648.html Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:01:49 EST news157701648 (AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. http://www.physorg.com/news156957177.html Medicine & Health Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:13:25 EST news156957177 (AP) -- It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. http://www.physorg.com/news156663460.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:38:19 EST news156663460 Dozens of popular children's bath products marketed in the United States contain two cancer-causing chemicals, a consumer safety watchdog group said in a report published Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news156269453.html Medicine & Health Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:11:35 EST news156269453 (AP) -- The nation's food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he filled the top job at the Food and Drug Administration. http://www.physorg.com/news156269046.html Medicine & Health Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:04:30 EST news156269046 (AP) -- The health care safety net is straining. Just look at Jeffrey Taylor's parking lot. Taylor oversees a community health center for the poor in this suburb a dozen miles east of downtown Atlanta. The center, a modest one-story brick building on a hillside, has never been busier. People who recently lost their jobs and health insurance fill the waiting rooms, and their cars jam into the clinic's 50-space parking lot - with much of the overflow ending up at the nightclub next door. http://www.physorg.com/news156087127.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:32:33 EST news156087127 Supermarkets across the country cleared the shelves of more than 2,600 items recalled after salmonella contamination was found in some products made by the Peanut Corp. of America. http://www.physorg.com/news156019935.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:53:01 EST news156019935 Cell phones are a danger on the road in more ways than one. Two new studies show that talking on the phone while traveling, whether you're driving or on foot, is increasing both pedestrian deaths and those of drivers and passengers, and recommend crackdowns on cell use by both pedestrians and drivers. The new studies, lead-authored by Rutgers University, Newark, Economics Professor Peter D. Loeb, relate the impact of cell phones on accident fatalities to the number of cell phones in use, showing that the current increase in deaths attributed to cell phone use follows a period when cell phones actually helped to reduce pedestrian and traffic fatalities. However, this reduction in fatalities disappeared once the numbers of phones in use reached a "critical mass" of 100 million, the study found. http://www.physorg.com/news155404929.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:02:53 EST news155404929 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new Washington state program designed to help victims of domestic violence increase their knowledge of how to use technology safely and help minimize the risks that technology can pose when one is in an abusive relationship has been evaluated as highly successful. http://www.physorg.com/news155318559.html Other Sciences Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:02:58 EST news155318559 A new testosterone patch, designed to pep up a woman's flagging sex drive after womb and ovary removal, may not work, and its long term safety is not proven, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). http://www.physorg.com/news155282462.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:01:41 EST news155282462 People are always looking for ways to make something less expensive and more environmentally friendly - and a team of researchers from North Carolina State University has figured out how to do both of those things at once when raising the large-scale buildings, such as parking garages, of the future. http://www.physorg.com/news155282307.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:00:27 EST news155282307 A new study conducted at the Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, and published by Elsevier in the February 2009 issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine shows that there is a lack of education and understanding in what sets a living will in motion in a pre-hospital setting. Education and implementation of code status designations can clarify this confusion. http://www.physorg.com/news154694783.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:47:49 EST news154694783 The recent salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean and sanitary, Temple public health professor Jennifer Ibrahim, Ph.D., says officials need to consider other possible sources of illness. http://www.physorg.com/news154341910.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:45:51 EST news154341910 The social environment at swimming pools appears to be related to sun safety behaviors of outdoor pool staff, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news154025532.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:52:42 EST news154025532 Doctors may be able to use certain cognitive tests to help determine whether a person with Alzheimer's disease can safely get behind the wheel. The research is published in the February 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news153421746.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:10:46 EST news153421746 The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found. http://www.physorg.com/news152950556.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:33:01 EST news152950556 A car that can brake itself to avoid a fender-bender during the morning commute might seem far into the future. Except it goes on sale in March. That's when City Safety, a low-speed collision-avoidance technology becomes available on the new 2010 Volvo XC60, a crossover utility. http://www.physorg.com/news152387879.html Technology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:58:50 EST news152387879 The Canadian government reportedly is planning to release in February the world's first national regulation requiring companies to detail their use of engineered nanomaterials, according to environmental officials. The information gathered under the requirement will be used to evaluate the risks of engineered nanomaterials and will help to develop appropriate safety measures to protect human health and the environment. http://www.physorg.com/news152377937.html Nanotechnology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:12:52 EST news152377937 (PhysOrg.com) -- In an invited, peer-reviewed journal article on how prenatal exposure to toxic substances are linked to a host of diseases in later life -- from atherosclerosis to cancer -- a Cornell toxicologist calls for changing how safety testing is done to better protect infants and children. http://www.physorg.com/news151688225.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:37:32 EST news151688225 Maybe the Internet isn't just one massive predator preyground after all. Maybe our children are much safer in cyberspace than we thought. http://www.physorg.com/news151510052.html Technology Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:07:32 EST news151510052 Transportation and security officials on Inauguration Day will have a centralized, consolidated stream of traffic information and other data displayed on a single screen using software developed by the University of Maryland. The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS) gives officials a single real-time view far more comprehensive than previously available. http://www.physorg.com/news151255928.html Technology Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:32:08 EST news151255928 An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, has found that using a Surgical Patient Safety Checklist significantly reduces surgical complications and mortality. The study, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Dr. Atul Gawande of the Harvard School of Public Health, appears in the New England Journal of Medicine's Online First on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The study will appear in the journal's printed issue on January 29, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news151176267.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:24:27 EST news151176267 (PhysOrg.com) -- Who knows what 'aetiology' means? It's a branch of science dedicated to finding the causes of something. European researchers have been busy updating the aetiology of road accidents and studying which technologies can make our roads safer for everyone. http://www.physorg.com/news151165991.html Technology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:33:11 EST news151165991 The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority in certain critical areas, according to a new expert report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). http://www.physorg.com/news151160447.html Nanotechnology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:47 EST news151160447 Despite recent saber-rattling between state and federal officials, anew California law took effect Thursday that effectively bans the sale of toys and other children's products containing phthalates. http://www.physorg.com/news150097843.html Medicine & Health Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:50:43 EST news150097843 Nanotechnology policy experts are urging that food additives that contain nanoscale materials be subject to new safety testing to ensure that their use does not pose unintended risks. http://www.physorg.com/news148844420.html Nanotechnology Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:40:20 EST news148844420 (PhysOrg.com) -- Learning a feeling of safety activates cellular and molecular processes that act against depression. This has been analysed using a new animal model that helps examine and explain the relevant cell biology processes more effectively. The findings now published in the journal Neuron show that "learned safety" can have an anti-depressive effect comparable to pharmacological antidepressants but that this effect is controlled by other molecular processes. The project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was carried out by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia University in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news148575145.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:52:25 EST news148575145 You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect - or fail to protect - people during car accidents. But those dummies are made of plastic and steel, not tissue and bone. They can teach only so much. http://www.physorg.com/news148236960.html Technology Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:56:00 EST news148236960