Responding to the Health Minister's announcement on the new structures for health and social care in Northern Ireland, Mary Hinds, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland Director said:

Delegates at the British Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery Conference will hear that results from a pilot study saw graduates 95 per cent more confident using this robotic technique t

The way locusts react to stress may provide an important clue to understanding what causes human migraines - and how to reduce their painful effects, says Queen's University Biology professor Mel

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) has announced six finalists that will compete for the 2008 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Resear

The Center for Military Biomaterials Research (CeMBR), part of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University, has enabled the development of a breakthrough spray-on dressing for inj

Beneficial bacteria found in healthy women help to reduce the amount of vaginal HIV among HIV-infected women and might make it more difficult for the virus to spread, boosting the possibility that

The Artis zee system family has a new memberAngiography (vascular imaging) uses X-ray technology and contrast media for spatial visualization of blood vessels. The new Artis zeego angiogr

Less sleep can increase a child's risk of being overweight or obese, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their analysis of epidemiological s

North District Middle School in Varnville, South Carolina, was selected from more than 60 applicants nationwide to receive the first-ever School Nutrition Foundation' Winston Industries Equipment

A recent study by Dr Christina Haston, a researcher of the McGill University Health Centre research Institute, sheds some new light on the bone problems that generally accompany cystic fibrosis. D

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers a four-year, $3.4 million grant to develop what may become the first effective drugs to

A new asthma action plan specifically for Indigenous Australians has just been published on-line by the National Asthma Council Australia and is now available for free download at:

The Alabama Department of Public Health reports that influenza activity has been confirmed recently in several Alabama counties including Coffee, DeKalb, Elmore, Greene, Jefferson, Madison, Monr

American Physical Society meeting in New Orleans to feature the latest developments in everything from quantum computers to artificial neuronsThe March Meeting of American Physical Socie

After just seven months in print, Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press journal, has been named the 2007 Best New Journal - Science, Technology & Medicine, by the Professional and Scholarly Publis

The recent news story Can Pregnant Women Drink Alcohol in Moderation?, which aired on ABC's Good Morning America Weekend, has created tremendous confusion among women about the safety of

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reiterates its long-standing opposition to home births. While childbirth is a normal physiologic process that most women experience w

The availability of new genome sequencing technology has prompted a Virginia Tech plant scientist to test an intriguing hypothesis about how agriculture's early beginnings may have impacted the ev

Out of chaos, control: Cornell University molecular biologists have discovered how a protein called PARP-1 binds to genes and regulates their expression across the human genome. Knowing where PARP

A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the F

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers to ensure they have effective measures in place to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery. The warning follows HSE's prosecution

Research conducted by Help the Aged has revealed that the UK public ranks mental decline higher than any other worry about ageing, including big issues like the pensions crisis and the fear of iso

Help the Aged responded to news that the Department of Health are to introduce a new unified complaints system for health and social care, to make it easier for people to complain when things go w

Cities are responsible for so many of the sustainability challenges faced by our urbanising world, but urban ecologists can help unlock the benefits of city living, say researchers in Science.

Aphids that eat Brussels sprouts are smaller than normal and live in undersized populations, which has a negative knock-on effect up the food chain according to new research published today (8 Feb

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medical and Dental Health, Access to Care and Use of Services in U.

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force on the 6th April 2008. The Act creates an offence which means that an organisation that causes death by gross negligenc

Mental health charity Mind believes that the Government's reforms to the health and social care complaints system are insufficient to address serious complaints on mental health wards. The Governm

Enrollment in California community college nursing programs has increased by 60% over the past three years, with minority enrollment increasing by 13%, largely as a result of the three-year, $10

Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, rece