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Auditor's report needs significant changes

Every year public companies release a financial statement that includes a report from an auditor. That report provides assurance about the quality of the financial information and is meant to help the company attract investors, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Babies and toddlers should learn from play, not screens

The temptation to rely on media screens to entertain babies and toddlers is more appealing than ever, with screens surrounding families at home, in the car, and even at the grocery store. And there is no shortage of media ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic testing for inherited cardiac conditions is 'patchy' in Europe

While genetic inheritance is known to play a role in the multifactorial development of most diseases of the heart, there are also a number of clearly diagnosed cardiac conditions which owe their development to quite specific ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New guidelines for cardiovascular genetic testing

An international panel of experts from The Heart Rhythm Society and the European Heart Rhythm Association issued new guideline recommendations for all health care professionals about cardiovascular genetic testing at the ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created May 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Frequent inaccuracies in testosterone testing lead to call for standardization

The use of testosterone assays for patient care and research is on the rise as new research links testosterone to a variety of diseases and conditions. Although the assays are heavily used, discrepancies and inaccuracies ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experts advocate realigning type 2 diabetes treatments with disease's natural history

A new consensus statement published in the September, 2010, issue of The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) finds that the increasing recognition that beta-cell failure occurs much e ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

AAO-HNS releases consensus statement: diagnosis and management of nasal valve compromise

Today, the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) announced the release of a consensus statement to address ambiguities and disparities in the diagnosis and management of nasal valve compromise ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sociological study reflects high financial malfeasance rates in largest US corporations

The need to "fix" or restate financial statements is an admission by corporate management that these reports (prior to their being corrected) to the government and the investing public misrepresented the corporations' financial ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds cancer information on Wikipedia is accurate, but not very readable

It is a commonly held that information on Wikipedia should not be trusted, since it is written and edited by non-experts without professional oversight. But researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Conflicts of Interest Affect Conservation Science

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a perfect world, scientific research is supposed to be completely objective and free of conflicts of interest. But University of South Florida researchers say that politics can overtake facts, with potentially ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers examine correlation between political speeches, voting

Although politicians are often criticized for making empty promises, when it comes to their voting records, their words may carry more weight than previously thought, according to findings by two Penn State information technology ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Most top medical journals have conflict of interest policies available for public review

Nearly 90 percent of medical journals with relatively high impact factors have policies addressing author conflict of interest (COI) available for public review, according to a report in the November 25 issue of JAMA. But ma ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Failing the sniff test: Researchers find new way to spot fraud

Companies that commit fraud can find innovative ways to fudge the numbers, making it hard to tell something is wrong by just looking at their financial statements. But research from North Carolina State University unveils ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Technique Could Improve Accuracy of Child Testimony

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seven open-ended questions could make children less suggestible during interviews.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Appeals court orders new trial in Brocade case

(AP) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out the criminal conviction of the first Silicon Valley executive to go to trial in a stock options scandal that triggered charges against at least a dozen executives.

Technology / Business

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0