Science Education & Policy

Kenya Ministry Of Education To Use EPals To Connect Kenyan Schools Worldwide

BOSTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- ePals to provide Kenyan classrooms with the largest social network for meaningful learning The Kenyan Ministry of Education will provide the opportunity for their students and educators to safely connect with schools around ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 8:32am

NitroSecurity Acquires RippleTech Adding Database Monitoring And Log Management To Network Security Product Suite

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Companies' Joint Technologies Further Unify Information Security From Edge-to-Core Battling Data Breaches; Meets Stringent Compliance Requirements NitroSecurity, Inc. (http://www.nitrosecurity.com), ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 8:32am

Physicians Practice And Nevada Cancer Institute Partner To Improve Patient Care

BALTIMORE, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Partnership will help Nevada Cancer Institute Funnel Cancer Research to Physicians Physicians and patients of community-based medical practices in Nevada and SW Utah will benefit from a new partnership between Physicians ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 11:31am

The Other Hand………….The Sunk-Cost Fallacy Continued

Of course the flip side, meaning the benefits of the sunk-cost fallacy, need to be addressed. One example can be found in a January 12, 2007 article in the “Freakonomics” section of the New York Times titled “What does Barack Obama Know about Behavioral Ec ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 15 2008 - 7:31pm

UK Company Avoco Secure Has Been Chosen To Provide Protection Against Cyber-Predators Who Target Young Students

LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/--- Educational Service Uses Avoco's Secure2trust and Secure2email to Protect Student Academic Forms From Cyber-Predators and Other Threats The Christian Center for Learning Development is an educational service based in N ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 16 2008 - 11:31am

Commonwealth Fund Says US Health Care Scorecard Is Going Down

It's no secret that the Commonwealth Fund doesn't like private health care and their new national scorecard states that scores on access have declined significantly since the first national scorecard in 2006. Despite spending more on health care ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2008 - 11:40pm

UK Businesses Urged To Help Employees Deal With Stress More Positively

FRIMLEY, England, July 17 /PRNewswire/--- New Report Highlights Dangerous Responses to Stress Among Employees UK workers are most likely to turn to alcohol, smoking and comfort eating to help them deal with the stress of their occupations, according to a ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 17 2008 - 2:32am

Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG And UNINETT Win 2008 Liberty Alliance IDDY Awards

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/--- Identity-Enabled Applications in the Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecom and Open Source Sectors Receive Identity Deployment of the Year Awards ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 17 2008 - 4:32am

And Baby Makes Eight...

LONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire/-- Becoming a mum changes a woman's life irrevocably, and a new research report out today highlights a massive change which is often overlooked- how friendships alter to fit the new mum status. The Friendship Report, commi ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 17 2008 - 8:32am

Lyme—The New Saturn

Living on a desert island may not even be a mode of escape from Lyme disease because birds can also be a carrier of infected ticks. Dorothy Leland, who is an advocate with the California Lyme Disease Association and has a daughter with the disease used to ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 18 2008 - 10:32am