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Secretary Napolitano Promotes Holiday Travel Tips for Safety, Security and Health
11/20/2009 3:33:21 PM
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today was joined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Dr. Anne Schuchat and Transportation Security Administration...
USDA Scientists, Colleagues Sequence Corn Genome
11/20/2009 3:31:37 PM
Achievement expected to Speed the Development of New Varieties WASHINGTON, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence t...
Secretary Napolitano Announces Rule Proposing Permanent Global Entry Program
11/20/2009 3:20:28 PM
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the publication of new proposed rule that would establish Global Entry—a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) volun...
Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan Meets with World Food Program and Iraq Agricultural Officials
11/20/2009 3:19:12 PM
Meetings Held During 36th FAO Conference in Rome, Italy ROME, Italy, On the sidelines of the 36th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Ministerial Confe...
General Mills Posts Response to FDA
11/20/2009 2:03:29 PM
General Mills said today that discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the cholesterol-lowering benefits of the soluble oat fiber in Cheerios continue. FDA posted to ...
Projections of savings from health IT are baseless, Harvard researchers say
11/20/2009 1:24:55 PM
National survey of U.S. hospitals shows information technology has yielded neither administrative efficiencies nor cost savings The increased computerization in U.S. hospitals hasn’t made them chea...
NASA Pushes Social Media Experience to New Heights
11/20/2009 1:17:19 PM
WASHINGTON -- NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned into an unprecedented world-wide event as more than 100 Twitter users got a unique look...
CDC Kicks Off National Travelers’ Health Public Awareness Campaign
11/20/2009 1:09:00 PM
Effort Aims to Educate Travelers about H1N1 Every holiday season, millions of Americans travel through the nation’s airports, seaports, and train stations to spend time with loved ones. Special hol...
Majority of Teachers Emphasise Importance of Parental Support in Child Development
11/20/2009 11:18:39 AM
Forty-two percent of teaching staff say ‘invisible’ parents lack the confidence to approach them to discuss their child, whilst many parents feel positive following conversations with their child’s te...
Lockheed Martin Delivers First Set Of U.S. Customs & Border Protection P-3 Orion New Production Wings
11/20/2009 11:16:41 AM
MARIETTA, Ga., Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) officials marked the delivery of the first CBP set of new production P-3 Orion wings from the company’s Marietta, ...
New Report Finds Only 25 Percent of Adults Aged 50-64 Get Recommended Preventive Screenings
11/20/2009 11:15:02 AM
New Resource Offers Needed Data and Strategies to Reduce Illness and Premature Death Only about 1 in 4 Americans aged 50–64 regularly take advantage of preventive services such as screenings and im...
Saab ROV to investigate plane crash
11/20/2009 11:10:56 AM
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is the first in the US to have a deep water rated remotely operated vehicle. The vehicle they have chosen is Saab’s Seaeye Falcon DR. When an experimental plane cra...
Highest Rates of Obesity, Diabetes in the South, Appalachia, and Some Tribal Lands
11/20/2009 11:07:21 AM
Estimates of Obesity Now Available for all U.S. Counties Wide sections of the Southeast, Appalachia, and some tribal lands in the West and Northern Plains have the nation′s highest rates of o...
European medical advisory committee does not recommend approval of Avastin for deadly form of brain cancer
11/20/2009 11:05:10 AM
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), which is responsible for conducting the initial assessment of medicinal products that...
Tracesmart able to help reunite Australian child migrants with UK families
11/20/2009 10:56:00 AM
The stories headlined in the media over recent days have highlighted the plight of British child migrants that were sent to Australia during the early to mid period of the last century. The reported c...
GAO Report Recognizes That Consumers Could Be Hurt By Government Intervention on Interchange
11/20/2009 10:48:29 AM
Concludes That Merchants Receive Significant Benefits from Payment Card Acceptance Purchase, NY, The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report confirming the benefits that merchants an...
Verocity 2009 Software Platform from deverus™ Selected for Munio RMS, LLC
11/20/2009 10:40:26 AM
deverus, Inc., a leading provider of software and hosted support services for background screening companies, announced today that Munio Risk Management Services, LLC (Munio RMS) headquartered in Dall...
Agribusiness Lobbyists Defend Organic Scofflaw in Court to Protect Corporate Takeover
11/20/2009 1:41:04 AM
Food Manufacturers and Organic Industry Lobbyists Circle the Wagons CORNUCOPIA, WI – Two powerful lobby groups in the food industry, The Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Organic Trade Assoc...
Space Shuttle Pilot Set to Talk With Tennessee Students from Orbit
11/19/2009 2:44:42 PM
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Bart Gordon and Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville will host a live conversation between more than 120 students and NASA astronaut Barry E. Wilmore on Sunday, N...
NAB Outlines Negative Impact of Performance Fee
11/19/2009 2:34:55 PM
-- Congressional opposition to RIAA-backed bill grows -- WASHINGTON, DC -- Representatives from the National Association of Broadcasters met with members of Congress and representatives from the Re...