Archive for June, 2007

Setback for Ill Workers at Nuclear Bomb Plant

Mainul calls for social movement to control abuse of drug - The New Nation

Mainul calls for social movement to control abuse of drug
The New Nation, Bangladesh - Jun 26, 2007
"It is not possible for the government nor any government agency alone to control drug addiction and its illegal use," he said and added that awareness .

SOCIAL STUDIES - Globe and Mail

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jun 26, 2007
"The more we try to control [our thoughts], the more they do what they want," Prof. Wegner says. The secret is not to try so hard to control them and .

A fiery predawn accident sent concrete crashing onto a highway below and hobbled a vital Bay Area interchange.

- Tanker Truck Fire Collapses Bay Area Overpass

A federal advisory panel has recommended that former workers at a nuclear weapons plant be denied immediate government compensation.

- Setback for Ill Workers at Nuclear Bomb Plant

A report in the April 2007 issue of Psychiatric Services has identified a unique subgroup of schizophrenia patients in the United States who tend to receive depot antipsychotic medications. [click link for full article]

- Report Identifies Schizophrenia Patients Likely To Receive Depot Medication

The Sociology of Social ControlSocial Control is problematic:. Not natural, but a product of social forces, group interests. Politics; winners and . When threat is reduced: dump them out (Spitzer’s Social Junk). Control may appear humane and benign, but is in reality . Social Control is unified and coherent. "Transcarceration": Control activity moved from the individual body (demonic . development and extension of Formal Control (characteristic of modern societies), (Rational Systems), Control through . Historical movement has been from brutal, overt repression to rational, scientific, and bureaucratic control– . Yet, one can’t deny the spread of formalized Social Control and its impact on our lives and identities. As of 1987. it . Deviants, themselves, think little of or about formal control: contempt and disdain. *System is not a smooth operating . Control mechanisms (police, welfare, MI, etc) constantly sweeping through society, catching, processing (tagging, .

New Drug Application Submitted For Investigational Antibiotic Doripenem

Spoiler NYC - Grease Fire in Hell’s Kitchen - Punknews.org

Spoiler NYC - Grease Fire in Hell’s Kitchen
Punknews.org - Jun 25, 2007
The straight-up, Social Distortion-influenced punk of Spoiler NYC is interesting given the members history. Robert of course came from the well-known hard .

Cook Medical announced today the availability of the Cook Turbo-Flo 8 French Double Lumen Central Venous Catheter designed to produce increased flow rates. [click link for full article]

- Cook Medical Launches Catheter Designed To Increase Flow Rates

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C., (J&JPRD) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for doripenem, an investigational carbapenem antibiotic for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia, a pneumonia that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare setting. [click link for full article]

- New Drug Application Submitted For Investigational Antibiotic Doripenem

The bodies of two children under six years old are discovered by police at an address in south London.

- Bodies of two children discovered

Police looking for a woman reported missing from her Surrey home say they have found a body in Hertfordshire.

- Body found in hunt for woman

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Women Have Double the Risk of Mid-Life Stroke

Gene for Goltz syndrome identified by researchers - Checkbiotech.org (press release)

Gene for Goltz syndrome identified by researchers
Checkbiotech.org (press release), Switzerland - Jun 6, 2007
. Christina Thaller and Ping Fang, all of BCM, and J. Omar Perza-Llanes of the Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. .

CHICAGO (Reuters) - To debate leading economists on hot topics like globalization and free trade, you can hang out at Harvard — or log on to a growing group of brainy blogs.

- Blogging economists draw cyber-crowds

The SNP holds informal coalition talks with other parties, after it becomes the largest Holyrood party.

- SNP begins coalition talks

ce as many American women than men are suffering strokes in middle age, a new study shows.

- Women Have Double the Risk of Mid-Life Stroke

KNOW THE LAW IN MEXICO - IMSS - Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social, A series .Know the Law in Mexico. A series by Adriana Perez Flores. IMSS - Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social. Mexico Connect - Mexico’s monthly ezine / magazine devoted to informing about and promoting Mexico, her people, culture, history, arts, business and spectacular areas and beaches as a place to visit, live and travel.

IBM turns to social software (Australian IT)

GenevaLogic Unveils On-Sight, Software for Providing a Safe Computer Learning Environment (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)New software tool helps extend school safety to computer and online activity.

Americans think immediate action is necessary to curb the effects of warming, a Times/CBS News poll finds.

- Public Remains Split on Response to Warming

All hospitals in England will receive new Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) by 2008, the Department of Health has announced.

- PACS rollout to be completed by 2008

Prevention Efforts About one of every eight federal health care dollars in fiscal year 2005, or nearly $80 billion, was spent treating people with diabetes, according to a study released on Tuesday by the National Changing Diabetes Program and the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, CQ HealthBeat reports. [click link for full article]

- Diabetes Care Accounts For One Of Every Eight Health Care Dollars In 2005, Study Finds

Shirky Social Software and the Politics of Groups Clay Shirky’s writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source