Physician take skeptical look at supplements, fad diets Oct 5, 2005
"There are so many fallacies about diets and vitamin supplements. The good news is I'm seeing a more skeptical public, and people would like a little more data before they take something." ... "They are sending the message that's OK to do this and for patients to take vitamins without any scientific data. This destroys all objectivity.". (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Airlines plan stingy holiday season Oct 5, 2005
The dollar amount that business travelers paid for flights in September was up 13 percent over last year, according to data from Topaz International Ltd., which audits what corporations actually pay for travel ... As the Topaz data show, the lower business fares are enticing travelers to trade up and pay more for less-restrictive tickets. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Wisdom teeth linked to gum disease in young people Oct 5, 2005
Twenty-somethings who keep their wisdom teeth may be at risk for gum disease and other health risks even if they show no symptoms or signs, new data from a series of clinical trials suggests ... Data from another study presented at the conference found that young women with third molar periodontal disease were twice as likely to give birth prematurely. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Storage Clips: HP acquires blade server software Oct 5, 2005
FileNet, HDS partner on management software FileNet Corp. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. have announced an integrated product based on Hitachi's hardware, which combines Hitachi's Data Retention Utility software with the FileNet P8 Enterprise Content Management platform release 3 ... The UTMB system is used to back up over 300 non-SAN-attached servers containing financial, academic and patient data, and currently manages 60 usable terabytes ... The product creates virtual disk space, and manages... (Search Storage)
Britain no longer having Nice time Oct 5, 2005
The decision is not quite as clear cut as the raw data suggests; even those who are convinced that policy needs to be eased believe that the Bank will delay action until next month ... However, there have been downward revisions to growth over the past year, and recent data has been weaker than the MPC thought probable. (Guardian Unlimited -- Business)
Grandparents increasingly raise needy grandkids Oct 5, 2005
Some data suggest one in 20 grandparents is in the role of a full-time parent. The reasons are often referred to as the four "Ds" drugs, divorce, desertion and death. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Cardiovascular Trouble Hits Some Native Americans Hard Oct 5, 2005
The study highlights the importance of viewing data from a regional perspective, the researchers said. "If state health departments and tribal health organizations only look at national data, they could get misleading data about problems in their community," Harwell said. (Health-Finder)
Loeb's tip: Long-term care policies Oct 5, 2005
Customize your searchof the HFD database ... License MarketWatch news, plus custom financial tools and data, from ... Intraday data provided by , a division of Interactive Data Corp. and subject to. (CBS MarketWatch - Front Page)
Antibiotic linked to dental defects in children Oct 5, 2005
The team analysed data from the Iowa Fluoride Study. They followed children born between 1992 and 1995. (Vancouver Sun (subscription))
A Solution to Kidney Donor Incompatibility? Oct 5, 2005
But what if doctors could access a "living donor" database and discover that donor B's kidney is compatible with patient A. And what if that same database revealed a match the other way around -- with donor A perfectly matched to patient B ... A database like this -- that matched up willing, living donors across the United States with needy recipients -- could allow willing donors to save a loved one's life by "switching out" kidneys with a compatible recipient elsewhere. (Forbes)
New Partnership Between Convio, Inc. and Target Software, Inc. Lets Nonprofits Conduct Integrated Fundraising to Drive More Effective Campaigns Oct 5, 2005
Prior to the partnership, Convio and Target collaborated to ensure efficient data exchange between a customer's Convio-powered online database and its Target Team Approach database ... Near real-time synchronization of online and offline constituent data ... Ability to pass new online data to Team Approach for use in segmentation and analytics. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
VendingData(TM) Enters High Frequency RFID Casino Chip Business Oct 5, 2005
Source: VendingData(TM) Corporation ... VendingData (TM) to Acquire Dolphin Products' Intellectual Property Including Global Distribution Rights to High Frequency RFID-Enabled Casino Chip Technology ... LAS VEGAS, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VendingData(TM) Corporation (Amex: - ), announced today that it has agreed to purchase all intellectual property ("IP") including global distribution rights for the current high frequency (13. (Yahoo Finance -- Casinos & Gaming)
New Orleans sediment samples troubling Oct 5, 2005
Data shows five areas of concern ... Farland said EPA and Louisiana officials were being careful about how they approach air, water and sediment sampling and analyzing the data. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Universal Detection Reaches Agreement with Rutgers University to Engage in Validation Testing of Bio-threat Detection Technology Oct 5, 2005
For more information, please visit or view investor-specific information about the Company, including recent news and other data, please visit ... Further distribution of these materials by posting, archiving in a public web site or database, or redistribution in a computer network is strictly forbidden. (Yahoo Finance -- Scientific & Technical Instr.)
[external] Idenix May Have 'Best-In-Class' Hepatitis Treatment Oct 5, 2005
Morgan Stanley raised the target price on Idenix Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: - - ) to $29 from $27 and said the biotech firm's experimental hepatitis B drug telbivudine has the potential to be a "best-in-class" drug, given recent data. Monday, the company reviewed data to be presented for telbivudine, as well as hepatitis C treatment NM-283, that will be presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) meeting on Nov. 11-15 ... "The data were positive and give us... (Yahoo Finance -- Major Drugs)
White Mountain Capital Reiterates Buy Rating on Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Ahead of Staphvax Data Release Oct 5, 2005
D., analyst for independent research provider White Mountain Capital, LLC, reiterated his BUY rating on Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NasdaqNM: NABI) ahead of the release of Phase III trial data for the Florida-based biotech company's lead candidate, StaphVAX. "StaphVAX is the key determinant of Nabi's growth and development. As such, the upcoming phase III data release is critical," Levy said. "In our view, StaphVAX is a very promising late-stage candidate because it targets a significant unmet... (PR Newswire)
Who says doctor knows best? Oct 5, 2005
The manufacturer, Roche, says it has not yet collected the safety data needed to apply for a licence for its use to treat early breast cancer ... Yet the data available is so persuasive that good private health insurers already pay for it ... Publish all the data (and I mean all of it) and let people decide. (TimesOnline)
Health Plans Improve, But Less Data Seen Oct 5, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many U.S. health insurers provided better medical care to their patients in 2004, but more consumers are enrolling in types of plans that do not make such data public, according to a survey released on Monday ... The groups used data culled from both patient medical records, doctors' claims and patient surveys ... Most of the plans reviewed were health maintenance organization (HMO) or point-of-service (POS) plans that regularly volunteer their patient care data. (MEDLINEplus)
National Survey Sharpens Picture Of Major Depression Among U.S. Adults Oct 5, 2005
The new analysis of data from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) shows for the first time that middle age and Native American race increase the likelihood of current or lifetime MDD, along with female gender, low income, and separation, divorce, or widowhood ... The NESARC data set, interview, descriptive materials, and citations are available at ... News releases based on NESARC data and additional alcohol research information and publications... (Science Daily)
Vast Majority Of Adults At Risk Of Becoming Overweight Or Obese Oct 5, 2005
(August 2, 2002) -- While extreme obesity has been associated with heart failure, until now, data have been limited regarding the influence of overweight and lesser degrees of obesity on the risk of this disease ... Researchers collected health and injury data during a one-year period on. (Science Daily)
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 4 October 2005 Oct 5, 2005
The data from his VC-9 experiments were then transferred from FlashCard memory to the RSE1 laptop ... Krikalev performed the periodic data recording and photo documentation of the germinated plants of the Russian BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 ("Plants-2") payload with subsequent transfer of data and images to the ground via Regul-Packet and the newer BSR-TM telemetry link ... Later, as another handover demo for the E-12 crew, Krikalev conducted the daily routine maintenance of the SM's SOZh environment... (Space Ref)
Mindboggle: Automated brain labeling with multiple atlases Oct 5, 2005
To make inferences about brain structures or activity across multiple individuals, one first needs to determine the structural correspondences across their image data. We have recently developed Mindboggle as a fully automated, feature-matching approach to assign anatomical labels to cortical structures and activity in human brain MRI data ... Label assignment is based on structural correspondences between labeled atlases and unlabeled image data, where an atlas consists of a set of labels... (BioMed Central)
United Business Media plc Launches Bond Tender Offer Oct 5, 2005
- Over 460,000 journalists profiled in media targeting database. - Over 10,000 print and more than 12,000 online sources, including websites, blogs and databases monitored ... License MarketWatch news, plus custom financial tools and data, from. (CBS MarketWatch - Press Releases)
New Merriam-Webster gives diners an 'amuse-bouche' (Reuters) Oct 5, 2005
This year's batch include cybrarian, "a person who collects and manages information for the World Wide Web," and metadata, "data that provides information about other data.". Health-related words are also being added at a fast clip, including this year's. (RSS - Yahoo News - Oddly Enough)
Post-Katrina landscape turned into wireless lab Oct 5, 2005
It carries calls as well e-mail and other data over the Internet. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Health-Care Distributors Revive Oct 5, 2005
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PowerPicks Pull Ahead in September Oct 5, 2005
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Digital Health Records' Growth Tonic Oct 5, 2005
A Growth Tonic for Digital Health Records With its new rule, the Health & Human Services Dept. hopes to spur doctors to store patient data in computers and link them with hospitals' systems ... And even when physicians store patient information in computers, the data is not networked to local hospitals (see BW, 10/10/05, ) ... The hospital would then sell what amounts to membership in a network that would connect patient data on file at the hospital with information that lives on computers in... (BusinessWeek)
Cosmic suitcase mysteries Oct 5, 2005
The value of the MISSE program, besides the data available, is in its cost. Kinard said that NASA spent "a couple of million dollars" for the experiments. (Daily Press, VA)
High homocysteine tied to lower mental ability Oct 5, 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In older people, higher blood levels of homocysteine are associated with lower mental functioning, new data indicate ... The latest data come from the Framingham Offspring Study, the ongoing survey that's tracking the health of successive generations living in the Massachusetts community. (Reuters UK -- Health)
Two Samsung execs guilty of wealth transfer Oct 5, 2005
See chart on new data. Mega campus Samsung has broken ground on a second round of building at its Hwaseong semiconductor facility. (EETimes)
Speeding up approvals Oct 5, 2005
Not even its manufacturer, Roche, has applied for this extension yet, as it is still collecting data from trials and assessing the safety implications. Europe rightly insists on rigorous safety checks. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Alcohol abusers 'should not get transplants' Oct 5, 2005
Data: British Liver Trust. Compiled by Guardian research department. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
New Defibrillator Can Alert Doctors To Potential Problems Oct 5, 2005
It uses a special cell phone and sends data continuously to the hospital's computer. In an emergency, it can even page the doctor. (WRAL.com, NC)
Schmidt: Haiti Exclusion Oct 5, 2005
Biometric identification relies on a computer-driven system that collects unique biological identifiers like fingerprints, retina scans, or digital photos, digitizes them, and stores them in a central database. Each time you present your ID, the computer system checks the identifying data against that which is contained in the database under your name ... Other information, such as your date of birth, address, medical history, credit rating, political history, or information collected through... (Zmag.org)
Short stint: Suiter out as CEO of Stinger Medical Oct 5, 2005
These workstations allow doctors and nurses to access data at a patient's bedside. The addition of Suiter seemed a natural fit for 11-year-old Stinger, where revenue grew from $5. (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
Classified Ads: October 5, 2005 Oct 5, 2005
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BP Sees $700 Million Hit From Hurricanes Oct 5, 2005
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Is Sanofi Losing Sleep? Oct 5, 2005
The clinical data supporting Ambien CR spans only three weeks of testing time, according to Robert Hazlett, an analyst with Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, compared with the six months' worth of data supporting Lunesta ... "The data for Lunesta is superior, but general practitioners don't have time to look at that." (Sanderson doesn't own shares of Sepracor; S.G. Cowen doesn't have an investment-banking relationship with the company ... Historical prices and fundamental data provided by Mutual fund... (SmartMoney)
Her Body: How to Boost a Woman's Sex Drive Oct 5, 2005
After a lively debate, they put approval on hold, asking instead that the studies continue longer so more data could be considered ... They argue that Viagra sailed through its approval process, even though it had no more long-term safety and efficacy data than Intrinsaand its known side effects were much more serious, especially for men with heart conditions. (Washington Post - Newsweek)
The Old College Try: Oct 5, 2005
It rarely offers more than basic data and offers little insight into details such as which schools are affordable, which schools help you survive the trauma of freshman year, or which schools have the kind of extracurricular activities you crave ... The front of the book has standard short descriptions with the usual data on each college, such as average SAT scores, major departments, sports, and activities ... It has data on more than 1,600 two-year schools, a great boon since nearly half of... (Slate)
Centric Software Introduces OpenPLM Solutions With Connectivity To Multiple Data Sources Oct 5, 2005
Centric Software Delivers Only OpenPLM Solutions With Live Connectivity To Multiple Data Sources ... This connectivity provides distributed product and project teams with automatic extraction and aggregation of real-time product and operational data, presenting cross-disciplinary information and enabling more informed decision making ... These solutions offer the most powerful platform for informed team collaboration on key data in multi-system, multi-vendor environments. (MCADCafe)
Doctor Atomic Oct 5, 2005
Variety is striving to present the most thorough review database. To report inaccuracies in review credits, please. (Variety)
Korea's FDI declines 9.4% in Q3 Oct 5, 2005
7 billion compared to a year ago, the data showed. The report, however, underlined that the number of investments rose 16. (Korea Herald, Korea)
We're a MSNBC Partner Site Oct 5, 2005
Data: and delayed 20 min.. WASHINGTONPOST.COM HIGHLIGHTS. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Sarbanes-Oxley Law Offers Side Benefits Oct 5, 2005
Strong controls can protect against risk from changes to software and data. Such controls limit employee access to corporate data ... About 90% of companies still use manual methods such as compiling data from multiple spreadsheets or text files to document at least some of their controls, says Gill. (Investors Business Daily)
Oncolytics Biotech's Research Collaborators to Present Data on REOLYSIN(R) Research at AACR-NCI-EORTC Conference Oct 5, 2005
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Kids don't fare well in county Oct 5, 2005
The 2005 Alabama Kids Count Data Book, released by VOICES for Alabama's Children, states Barbour County ranks 58th among 67 Alabama counties-down from 55th last year on a range of child welfare indicators ... The data released offers several sobering statistics according to the latest available data ... Other data released included. (Eufaula Tribune, AL)
Networks offer power of three Oct 5, 2005
They are moving towards the bundled delivery of voice, video and data over broadband ... IT manager Len Gemelli says Peter Mac, as the centre is known, had been experiencing a growing demand for converged voice and data services ... " Mr Gemelli believes it is critical to have a strong data network to support a converged voice service. "What we have now is a hybrid portable and traditional internet telephony system. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Katrina Update: Government's Inadequate Response Continues Oct 5, 2005
The government should aggregate the collected data and publicly report on any common problems or detected health trends. Individuals and communities should have access to their own health monitoring results. (OMB Watch)
