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University of Minnesota and start-up to develop antidote to cyanide poisoning

Cyanide poisoning is often fatal and typically affects victims of industrial accidents, terrorist attacks, or structural fires. Based on research conducted at the Center for Drug Design at the University of Minnesota, startup ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New report outlines key features of next-generation public safety communications

Creation of a next-generation public safety communications network requires leadership from a single non-profit organization devoted to this purpose, according to a report released today by a federal advisory committee. Such ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High levels of burnout among UK family doctors, especially in group practice

Levels of burnout in UK general practice are high, suggests a study of general practitioners (GPs) in one area of South East England, published in BMJ Open.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Want your enemies to trust you? Put on your baby face

Do baby-faced opponents have a better chance of gaining your trust? By subtly altering fictional politicians' faces, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem examined whether minor changes in appearance ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Official patient complaints about health care 'tip of the iceberg'

Official complaints about healthcare are likely to be the "tip of an iceberg," with many more people feeling they have legitimate cause to complain, but not doing so, particularly those with bad experiences of services, suggests ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Huge potential of NHS junior doctors being ignored

Junior doctors in the NHS are willing and able to help improve health services, but they don't feel valued or heard, reveals the results of a regional survey published online in BMJ Quality and Safety.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NIH launches trials to evaluate CPR and drugs after sudden cardiac arrest

The National Institutes of Health has launched two multi-site clinical trials to evaluate treatments for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. One will compare continuous chest compressions (CCC) combined with pause- free rescue ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance

The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

After years of 'fracking,' Pennsylvanians remain mixed about gas drilling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite having an eight-year head start on Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, Pennsylvania residents are just as uncertain about the effects of horizontal hydraulic drilling as New Yorkers, researchers ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Serendipitous news reading online is gaining prominence

Traditional media, such as newspapers and television news, require readers and viewers to intentionally seek out news by picking up a newspaper or turning on the television. The Internet and new technologies now are changing ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Firefighters more likely to be injured exercising than putting out fires

Firefighters are more likely to be injured while exercising than while putting out fires, suggests research published online in Injury Prevention.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Only a third of US state police agencies equip cars with AEDs

Just 30 percent the nation's state police agencies reported that they equip their vehicles with automated external defibrillators, and of those, nearly 60 percent of said only a minority of their fleet have the lifesaving ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UC aerial robot system can save firefighter lives

Wildfires kill and, too often, fatalities are caused by a lack of situational awareness, said Kelly Cohen. Timely information can prevent wildfire deaths, especially among first responders, said Cohen, associate ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-tech robotic spider for hazardous missions

Spiders are very agile, and some can even jump. They owe this capability to their hydraulically operated limbs. Researchers have now designed a mobile robot modeled on the same principle that moves spider ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Social isolation: Are lonely consumers actually loners or conformers?

Despite the proliferation of social networks, many Americans feel alone and isolated. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, lonely individuals behave differently in the marketplace than people with s ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0