Culture in Medical News

U.S. Foodservice Cites Critical Need for Food Safety Culture From Farm to Fork During Monterey PMA Conference

MONTEREY, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Providing the safest fresh fruit and vegetables to consumers takes proactive measures to limit contamination at every stage of the supply chain according to the chief food safety executive for U.S. Foodservice, one of the country's leading f...

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Partners With Cell Culture Media Specialist SAFC Biosciences(R) to Provide World-Class Fluid Management and Liquid/Powder System Solutions

Global agreement strengthens customized manufacturing solutions for upstream and downstream processing and moves the 'disposable factory' closer to reality GOETTINGEN, Germany and ST. LOUIS, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Euronext: DIM), and SAFC B...

US Navy culture and workplace leads to heavy drinking

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (June 9, 2009) The nature of the U.S. Navy workplace leads to higher heavy drinking for sailors than for civilians, according to an article in the May issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research published by SAGE. Several issues...

Cepheid Receives Health Canada License for First On-demand Diagnostic Test for Life-threatening MRSA and S. aureus Infections From Patient Positive Blood Culture Bottles

Physician Access to Critical Test Results Improved by More Than Twenty-Four Hours Over Conventional Methods SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD ) today announced that Health Canada has issued a medical device license for its Xpert(R) MRSA/SA Blood Cul...

Press Ganey Releases Innovative Report to Assess Culture of Safety in U.S. Hospitals

Report Coincides With Patient Safety Awareness Week SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Patient Safety Awareness Week, Press Ganey Associates, Inc. today released a first-of-its-kind Safety Culture Pulse Report to assess the correlation between medical errors and ...

Researchers find culture of academic institution may influence health care delivery

(Boston)-Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Brandeis University have completed a qualitative study on the cultural environment in medical schools and how this may affect medical faculty vitality, professionalism and general productivity ultimately influencing the delive...

InVitria's Cell Culture Media Components Showcased at WilBio's 2008 Cell Engineering Meeting

International supplier of animal free, productivity enhancing cell culture media components offers its customers the chance to improve performance of cell culture development and bioproduction. Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) December 18, 2008 -- The 2008 Cell Engineering Conf...

The culture of medicine

Waltham, Mass.Everybody is familiar with the stereotypes of medical education from the student perspective: grueling hours, little recognition, and even less glory. Now a novel Brandeis study published in Academic Medicine this month pulls back the curtain on the dominant environment of academic...

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features tissue culture methods for immune cells and neurons

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Tues., Dec. 2, 2008) The complexity of vital organ systems makes them difficult to study in living organisms. Tissue culture methods for specific cell types allow researchers to break these systems down into component parts that can be readily manipulated and observed....

Pascal Metrics Announces Patient Safety Culture Services Offering

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Pascal Metrics Inc. publicly announces its offering of patient safety culture and risk management services for hospitals and healthcare systems. Serving clients since 2007, Pascal Metrics rapidly has become a worldwide leader for clients seeking ...

InVitria to Showcase its Innovative Cell Culture Components at American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting

Innovator of animal free and defined cell culture media components will feature its productivity maximizing products at ASCB Meeting in San Francisco Dec. 13-17, 2008. Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) November 12, 2008 -- InVitria InVitria announced today that it will showcas...

ISCAR, world-wide conference on role of culture in human development, convenes at UCSD

The Second Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR) will take place at the University of California, San Diego, Sept. 8-13, 2008. Nearly 1,000 researchers from 40 countries will attend the conference with others participating from around the globe via state-...

Companies Report Success in Driving Safety Culture at Workplaces

DuPont Announces Results of 2008 World Safety Declaration Survey SEOUL, Korea, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Driving a safety culture across organizations, extending it beyond the workplace and keeping it top of mind with a commitment to collaboration and sharing are critical for keepi...

Developing 'roadmaps' for enhancing the professional culture of medical schools

INDIANAPOLIS -- There is change afoot in the way medicine is being taught. Rigorous course work, state of the art laboratories and demanding clinical training are necessarily at the forefront. To complement the constant updating of the technical preparation of future physicians, a movement is grow...

Doctors' Group Sues Texas Medical Board for Misconduct; Cites Institutional Culture of Retaliation & Intimidation

TEXARKANA, Texas, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The entire Texas Medical Board (TMB) and its officials have been named in a lawsuit filed by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The complaint, filed this week in District Court in Texarkana, accuses the board of misc...

Novel 3-D cell culture model shows selective tumour uptake of nanoparticles

A nanoparticle drug delivery system designed for brain tumour therapy has shown promising tumour cell selectivity in a novel cell culture model devised by scientists at The University of Nottingham. The project, conducted jointly by the Schools of Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences and Human Developmen...

Global Advisor and Speaker Explains Middle East Investors, Politics, Culture

NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International advisor and speaker Michael Morgan is helping U.S., European, Asian and other clients better understand Middle Eastern and Islamic investors, business, politics and culture. He's also helping clients tap into one of the most active i...

Author Shares Nine Resolutions for 2009 to Create a Winning Corporate Culture

DALLAS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul Spiegelman, author of Why Is Everyone Smiling? The Secret Behind Passion, Productivity and Profit , knows what it takes to create a winning corporate culture. The Beryl Companies, a healthcare-exclusive call center Spiegelman co-founded with his two brothers 20...

InVitria's Cellastim Delivers Superior Results in CHO Cell Culture

Cellastim, an animal-free recombinant albumin product manufactured by InVitria, can outperform animal and human derived serum in CHO cell culture. Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) December 3, 2008 -- Cellastim has proven to be a robust replacement for serum derived albumin in C...

Non-white med students reject therapies associated with their culture

WASHINGTON, DC -- Non-white medical students are more likely to embrace orthodox medicine and reject therapies traditionally associated with their cultures. That is one finding from an international study that measures the attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicin...

Playboy founder embodies American Dream; changes American culture

COLUMBIA, Mo. There is little doubt that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has become one of the most controversial figures of the past half century. From his highly publicized lifestyle to his risqu magazine, to his multi-million dollar company, Hefner has played a leading role in reshaping America's ...

Free White Paper From The Beryl Institute Quantifies Bottom-Line Impact of Corporate Culture

HCA Study Reveals Qualities of High-Performing Organizations DALLAS, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A free white paper from The Beryl Institute, titled "High Performing Organizations: Culture as a Bottom-Line Issue," reveals that culture and employee satisfaction are highly correlated with outs...

New Website Contributes to Healthy Workplace Culture

MIDLAND, Mich., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Enhancement Systems announces the launch of healthy2008 - a low-cost resource for employers to have a positive influence on health. The program includes a completely customizable website (http://www.healthy2008.com ) plus a pocket calendar provid...

Hispanic drug use rises in US culture

CORVALLIS, Ore. Substance abuse increases among recent Hispanic immigrants as they replace their traditional cultural beliefs with those of white Americans, according to new research presented today by Oregon State University assistant professor Scott Akins at the American Sociological Associatio...

Warrior Culture in Los Angeles Police Force

Anguished questions are being raised over the police brutality seen while dispersing a rally of immigrants in Los Angeles on May Day. To quote from an eye-witness account - Without warning, cops descended into a park full of families, homeless and handicapped individuals and street cart vend...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

Changes in weather 700 years ago might have forced Tibetans to reorganize their society, an anthropologist has claimed. Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona, who is leading a research project in far western Tibet, is quoted by national Geographic as saying in preliminary findings...

Workplace Drinking Culture Influences Alcohol Intake Elsewhere

A restrictive drinking culture at work curbs an individuals overall alcohol intake, including outside of work, suggests research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The researchers base their findings on a detailed analysis of workplace attitudes towards dr...

A three-dimensional Culture System ensures Female Fertility

In women who are at risk for infertility and needing cancer therapy, it was difficult to attain follicular maturation in vitro when immature follicles were removed from their normal environment//. But a group of researchers at the Northwestern University have created a new technology (i.e.) a t...

Low Cost Tissue Culture Vaccine For Encephalitis

The Indian Ministry of Health is in search of a new cheaper tissue culture vaccine for Japanese encephalitis. So far the Gorakhpur Government has reported 200 deaths and 700 patients with infection. // Hundreds of people are infected and die every year due to the endemic infection of Encephalitis i...

Born into the Idiot Box Culture

American infants are avid television viewers, so much so that almost one in five babies rooms sport a television set. A parallel study also found that 40 percent of babies are sworn friends with the television by the age of 3 months and 90 percent by age 2. According to a survey by Univers...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

The government launched a campaign Monday against South Korea's hard-drinking culture which costs billions of dollars a year in social and economic losses, officials said . The campaign focuses on advertisements on television and elsewhere to enhance public awareness of the dangers of excessive dri...

DNA Underwent Changes Due To Culture

Natural selection is reported to have been responsible for much of the DNA among human beings during the course of the past 50,000 years. The tendency of human beings to live in settlements and cultivate fields can also be traced // to this natural selection process. One way to look for gene...

Cooperation Between Faith-Based Organizations and UNFPA Critical to Maternal Health, Say Groups

...'s work with faith-based communities, adding it had, "become a model for engagement that is at once sensitive, dignified and coherent, that recognizes culture as not only a viable entry point, but the framework for the development of gender equality and human rights." Opening the meeting on Monday, UN...

America Takes on the Challenge to Fight Obesity

...d cities, churches, civic groups, friends, and families across America are teaming up to help reverse the epidemic of excess weight and turn it into a culture of healthier living. Now Dr. Ian Smith is also teaming up with communities and leaders across the nation to host the first annual series of Wal...

iPierian Appoints Dr. Chad Cowan and Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger to Scientific Advisory Board

...e methods of deriving iPS cell lines in order to advance iPS cell technology. Because iPS cells are believed to be able to grow indefinitely in culture and to differentiate into many cell types, iPS cells have great potential for disease research, preclinical drug testing and cell-based therapy. iPier...

Micromet, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...t the AACR meeting indicating that its BiTE antibody MT110 can direct T cells to eliminate EpCAM-expressing human colorectal cancer stem cells in cell culture and in animal models. On April 24, Micromet held its annual analyst meeting to present an update to investors and analysts on its...

Amgen and Wyeth Statement on FDA Announcement About Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Blockers

...ance of product candidates in humans. The complexity of the human body cannot be perfectly, or sometimes, even adequately modeled by computer or cell culture systems or animal models. The length of time that it takes for Amgen to complete clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval for product marketing...

Are kids today truly more autonomous?

...s, teachers, other parents and the media. Dr. Rutherford looked at how the increasing importance of individualism and personal autonomy in American culture appears in childrearing advice. She analyzed a total of 300 advice columns and relevant editorials from 34 randomly chosen issues of Parents magazine,...

Radiation exposure during interventional procedures a concern for some developing countries

...ntries. Our goal is to introduce these concepts to them and achieve effective implementation," he said. "Most training centers need to establish a culture of dose assessment and dose managementincluding programs for residents with radiation protection as an essential componentto improve patient safety. D...

"Jesse's Story" to Open The 10th Annual Malibu Film Festival

...lved with Jesse's Story. It is rare to find a documentary, with a compelling story, told by a talented filmmaker who understands how important music, culture and the environment are to a great documentary. Jesse's Story is the perfect blend of inspiration, engaging characters, humanity and heart. This is ex...