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Talk by Professor Ian Gough* in a dinner gathering of the Hong Kong .The Prospect of Social Democracy Amidst Globalisation . hat follows is a summary of the key points of a talk by Professor Ian Gough* in a dinner gathering of the Hong Kong .

Forum Social DemocracySustainable solutions to the formidable problems modern societies are going to face can only be social democratic ones. But, says Policy Network director Patrick Diamond, Social .

UnitedHealth was ranked last among the seven largest national health insurers in an Athenahealth survey of 8,500 doctors examining how quickly and accurately insurers reimburse for physician services, the Wall Street Journal reports. UnitedHealth took an average of 38.3 days to reimburse doctors for services. [click link for full article]

- Physician Survey Ranks Health Insurer Reimbursement Practices

The American swimming pool has a complicated social history.

- The Swimmers

This year’s BVA Animal Welfare Foundation discussion forum takes place at the Royal Society of British Architects (RIBA) on Wednesday 9 May. [click link for full article]

- British Veterinary Association Animal Welfare Foundation 2007 Discussion Forum

An estimated 135,000 (65 percent) of sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) treated in U.S. emergency departments occur each year in young people ages 5 to 18, according to a study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). [click link for full article]

- New Study Finds Most Sports- And Recreation-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Occur In Youth And Teens, USA

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc. , whose calculators helped make the company a household name, has found a way to help teachers quickly identify students who may be failing math, Chief Executive Rich Templeton said on Monday.

- Calculators tell teachers which pupils need help

Fred D. Thompson hopes that his work as an investigator of wrongdoing will help propel him to the presidency.

- The Long Run: As Counsel, Thompson Walked Capital?s Fine Line

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The aunt of the four-year-old boy attacked by a dog tells how he was dragged down a street by the animal.

- Dog mauled blind boy ‘like doll’

Mobile water tankers used to help flooded residents are generally not being tampered with, say police.

- Bowsers ‘not being contaminated’

A team of researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (”Burnham”) has been awarded $7.39 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The funding will support a five-year, multi-project study entitled “Neuron-Glia Communication in Development.”Glial cells are at the center of most functions of the nervous system. [click link for full article]

- Funding Will Support Critical Understanding Of Brain Development And Demyelinating Diseases

US and British troops will need to stay another one or two years in Iraq, the President Jalal Talabani says.

- Iraq leader says troops must stay

As many as 1.2 million smokers in England could try to quit smoking in the New Year, figures suggest.

- Thousands to try to quit smoking

The May 5 editorial “Unsustainable Medicare” suggests correctly that concerns about the program’s costs require a thoughtful approach. In evaluating the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, it is important to recognize the overwhelming health care cost savings that result from patients’ adherence to appropriate medicinal therapy. [click link for full article]

- NACDS Sends Letter To The Washington Post Highlighting Key Role Of Pharmacy In Proper Use Of Medications, USA

As Rachel Carson’s admirers celebrate the centennial of her birth, and a new generation is reading her book in school - and mostly learning the wrong lesson from it - a 1962 review of her book employs science that has held up much better.

- Carson’s “Silent Spring” fails test of time