The Target credit and debit card and personal information breach, which last week was revealed to have affected more consumers than originally thought and which may be linked to attacks on other retailers, is expected to prompt U.S. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Security, Protection, Target credit card, debit card
Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have developed a process that cooperates with driver assistance systems in cars to pinpoint pedestrians and cyclists—even while they are hidden from view. To this end, pedestrian's ...
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Medicare's home health community is well-positioned to help strengthen the coordination of chronic care services for seniors The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare – a coalition of home health providers dedicated to improving ...
Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, Crozer-Keystone Health System in Delaware County, Pa. is the recipient of the 2013 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community ...
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Frequent colds are a normal part of young children's lives, but sometimes a stuffy nose becomes a more severe lung infection. Now, a new study clarifies some of the factors that put certain kids at greater risk. The study, published ...
Tags: kids health, frequent colds, human rhinoviruses, common cold, risks
For every ball purchased, One World Futbol Project gives a second ball to organisations using sport and play to support peace and development programs in disadvantaged communities worldwide The One World Futbol Project has partnered with ...
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The presence of calf scours is often an unwanted guest during spring calving season. Good management alone is sometimes not enough to protect the calf from scours, and so cattle producers turn to practices like calf vaccination to head ...
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape being killed by many antibiotics. Cells become "persisters" by entering a state in which they stop replicating and are able to tolerate ...
Tags: bacterial cells, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, persister cells
How do severe temperatures impact winter wheat? According to Bob Fanning, SDSU Extension Plant Pathology Field Specialist, the current winter wheat crop in South Dakota is doing well because it either received enough moisture early on in ...
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The sale of seed treatments has tripled in the last decade. Why? It makes economic sense for the farmers who use them, says Jay Vroom, CropLife Foundation president and CEO. Vroom and CropLife Foundation had a press conference at the ...
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of the Mill Gate Price Scheme (MGPS), along with 10 percent subsidy component with modifications. The scheme is now renamed as the Yarn Supply Scheme (YSS). ...
Tags: yarn prices, Textile
Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimetre (0.4 inches) to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday. The glacier ...
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Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, equine parasitologist, veterinarian, and assistant professor at the University of Kentucky (UK) Gluck Equine Research Center, has launched the first research crowdfunding project at UK and possibly the ...
If you're one of the millions of people who count losing weight among their top New Year's resolutions, you might want to pay careful attention to some new findings by UC Santa Barbara psychology professor Brenda Major. It turns out that ...