Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]

Oklahoma Area Health Education Center at Okla-homa State University and Rural Health Projects NwAHEC will conduct a free cancer survivorship education session in Enid noon to 2 p.m. June 21 at Senior Life Network’s activity room in Oakwood Mall, 4125 W. Garriott.
This is the first of several two-hour cancer survivorship education sessions planned throughout rural [...]

WorldMate, the leading provider of mobile travel services for business travelers, and Telmap, the world leader in mobile location and navigation solutions, today announced the integration of Telmap Navigator into the WorldMate Live mobile application. WorldMate Live members are now able to use maps and directions provided by Telmap through its Telmap Navigator application, as [...]

Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]

Ross Scrymgeour, head of private Hereworth School, Havelock North, says the banning of physical games like bullrush and murder-ball illustrates a softly softly approach to education that does not suit boys.
His boys-only schools play rough philosophy made pupils more attentive in class and taught them about physical boundaries.
Boys need to be exposed to this sort [...]

Naltrexone blocks opioid receptors and is approved for use in alcohol-dependent patients. To improve adherence, an intramuscular, injectable, extended-release formulation of naltrexone has been developed, Dr Domenic A Ciraulo, of Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues explain in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
The researchers tested injectable naltrexone XR in some 600 actively drinking, alcohol-dependent [...]

American Studies lecturer Dr Cornelia Sears said the College of Arts Change Proposal wrongly calculated her departments staff-student ratios.
It included lecturer Ken Harris, who died in 2005.
The proposal suggests cutting the underperforming American Studies and Theatre and Film Studies departments at the end of the year in order to save $2.5 million annually.
Sears said ratios [...]

Cancer afflicts 1.5 million people a year in the United States alone, and lung cancer is the most common and deadly form of cancer worldwide. This study indicates a direct role for a miRNA in cancer progression and introduces a new paradigm of using miRNAs as effective therapeutic agents to treat human cancer.
%26quot;We believe this [...]

In the laboratory, the artificial transposon developed by Dr. Ludivine Sinzelle, Dr. Zsuzsanna Izsv%26aacute;k, and Dr. Zolt%26aacute;n Ivics also shows cut-and-paste transposition in human cells and promises to serve as a useful experimental system for investigating human gene function.
Transposons comprise about half of the human genome. %26#8220;They are molecular parasites, similar to fleas, only that [...]

The study used a lab-based artificial ecosystem of communities of bacteria to examine what happens when the bacteria move around and evolve to live in different parts of the ecosystem over the course of hundreds of generations. The scientists measured the effect this dispersal of species has on the productivity and biodiversity of the ecosystem [...]