Research Examines Health Impact of Mining -- Illness, Premature Deaths Cost Appalachia Billions

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The costs of illness and premature deaths in Appalachia related to coal mining far outweigh economic benefits the industry brings to the region, says Michael Hendryx, Ph.D., associate director of the West Virginia University Institute for Hea...

Data mining of inpatient records reveals the disease pattern of obstructive sleep apnea

Westchester, Ill. A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to show the full clinical picture of comorbid conditions associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), quantify their frequency of occurrence and reveal their possible interrelationships. R...

Data mining detects signs of Lou Gehrig's disease in gene carriers long before symptoms appear

WASHINGTON Inspired by the use of microarray chips that look for gene combinations, psychologists are using "pattern array" software to spot movements in rats that might help them predict diseases such as Lou Gehrig's syndrome. A report in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, publish...

Study names 5 factors of social ills in energy, mining and logging communities

The troubling link between boom towns and high rates of substance abuse is usually attributed to workers having too much money and too little to do. But a recent study of one Canadian community suggests underlying pressures including loneliness, a lack of healthy social connections and a need to k...

A powerful literature and pathway mining system released to the public for free access

Genomatix Software GmbH of Munich, Germany and its US branch Genomatix Software, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI (USA) announced today the release of LitInspector. LitInspector can be accessed without limits and free of charge by the scientific community world wide. All that is required is registration fo...

MIRARCO, Canadian Light Source agreement lights way to greener mining

VANCOUVER Shining synchrotron light on environmental questions facing the mining industry is the goal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed today at the GLOBE 2008 conference between the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and MIRARCO Mining Innovation. MIRARCO prides itself in building bridge...

Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem

Undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms are at risk from seafloor mining scheduled to begin within this decade , according to a new study by a University of Toronto Mississauga geologist. According to Jochen Halfar, assistant professor of earth sciences at the...

Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

Indian pharmaceutical giant Cipla is holding talks with London based mining giant, Anglo American for supplying AIDS drugs to South African workers. About 11% of South African population is HIV positive, totaling around 4.7 million people, giving it the dubious distinction of being the country with...

MSA Announces Second Quarter Results

...nt quarter. Local currency sales were flat. Lower sales in Latin America, Australia and Africa, primarily due to the effects of the recession on the mining industry, were substantially offset by higher sales in China and the Middle East. Currency translation effects reduced International segment sales, w...

GeneGo Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Pharmacogenomics Software Suite

...and networks. GeneGo's flagship product, MetaCore 5.4( TM ), assists pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second product, MetaDrug 5.4( TM ) is designed for prediction of hum...

Croff Enterprises, Inc. Closes Merger and Will Change Name to America's Minority Health Network, Inc.

... the corporation to " America's Minority Health Network, Inc." About Croff: Croff was incorporated in Utah in 1907 under the name "Croff mining Company." Croff changed its name to "Croff Oil Company" in 1952, and in 1996 changed its name to the current "Croff Enterprises, Inc." Croff does no...

Croff Enterprises, Inc. Agrees to Merge With America's Minority Health Network, Inc.

...d no assurance can be given that this transaction will close. About COFF: The Company was incorporated in Utah in 1907 under the name "Croff mining Company." The Company changed its name to "Croff Oil Company" in 1952, and in 1996 changed its name to the current "Croff Enterprises, Inc." The Com...

Anglo American's Coal Division in South Africa Wins Global Business Coalition Award for top International Workplace HIV and AIDS Programme

...t HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. For more information please see: http://www.gbcimpact.org/awards Anglo American plc is one of the world's largest mining groups. With its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, it is a global leader in platinum group metals and diamonds, with significant interests ...

Hospital Infection Prevention Resources Cut, Study Says

...said Nutty. "These are the most essential components of infection prevention." The survey also found that only one in five respondents have data mining programs -- electronic surveillance systems that allow infection preventionists to discover and investigate potential infections in real-time, enablin...

APIC Supports Automated Surveillance Technologies in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections

...ailored elimination strategies that reduce infections and excess cost." In a recent survey of APIC members, only one in five had electronic data mining technology. The APIC position paper outlines many benefits of automated surveillance, including efficient review of infection data, rapid identificati...

Exagen Launches New Diagnostic Assays for Bowel Disease at Digestive Disease Week Conference

...g physicians with more reliable data to aid in diagnosing their patients. The tests were invented using Coperna(TM), Exagen's proprietary genomic data mining software. "Until now, physicians have relied on a wide range of tests and procedures to aid in the diagnosis of IBS and IBD, including blood test...

Younger men with advanced prostate cancer have shorter survival times

...s designed a study to examine the association between age at diagnosis and health outcomes in men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States. mining the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, the investigators identified 318,774 men diagnosed with p...

eCardio Launches NEW Atrial Fibrillation Information System (AFIS(TM))

... the most longitudinal data set on which to render treatment decisions. AFIS(TM) provides multi-factorial analysis tools for: Data mining for clinical research; Participation in the first international AF Registry; Calculation of left atrial scar; and Clinical man...

Wellness Program at MSA Receives National Recognition

...ensive line of products is used by workers around the world in the fire service, oil, gas and petrochemical industry, homeland security, construction, mining and other industries, as well as the military. Principal products include self-contained breathing apparatus, gas masks, gas detection instruments, h...

GeneGo and OmicSoft Announce Integration

... May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading provider of pathway data mining & analysis solutions, and OmicSoft Corporation, the premiere visualiza...ceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicolog...

Beeston To Pursue Gold And Silver Royalty Interests

...evelopment, in and around the famous Comstock Lode mining District in Nevada. The company is in the proces...d to the area and scrambled to stake their claims. mining camps soon thrived in the vicinity, which became b...s wealth. Between 1859 and 1878, the Comstock Lode mining District yielded about $400 million in silver and ...

Not All Gloomy for African Healthcare Markets: Frost & Sullivan Finds Potential Despite the Recession

...he Zingoni. "In some countries, plunging commodity prices have led to mine closures and mass lay-offs. Medical aid schemes, which cater mostly for the mining sector, are consequently facing dwindling membership bases." The global recession has also weakened African currencies, thus raising the cost of...

Illinois Soybean Association to Participate in Global Child Nutrition Forum in South Africa

...lobal Child Nutrition Forum will highlight two key programs that can make a difference in world hunger/nutrition: school lunch feeding programs and a mining worker project in Africa ," Roberts said. "We have used soy-enriched products for schools and at-risk communities and have witnessed higher producti...

International Coal Group Is Lead Sponsor for West Virginia Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure

...n and Central Appalachia and the Illinois Basin. The Company has 13 active mining complexes, of which 12 are located in Northern and Central Appalachia, and one in Central Illinois. ICG's mining operations and reserves are strategically located to serve utility, metallu...

Compendia Bioscience Announces Collaboration with MDS Pharma Services to Deliver Novel Solution for Oncology Drug Development

...ly growing compendium of 30,000+ expertly curated cancer genomic profiles with a sophisticated analysis engine and a powerful web application for data mining and visualization. Oncomine(TM) facilitates target discovery and validation and supports the prioritization of tumor populations for drug development....

Scient'x Groupe, S.A. Appointing Spinal Orthopedic Industry Executive Oliver Burckhardt as President and Chief Executive Officer

... strengthened the platform and positioned the Company for significant growth. His many achievements have been substantive and include development and mining of key clinical data, a successful restructuring of Scient'x USA operations, compliance upgrades, expansion of the global scientific advisory board an...

Michigan Infection Preventionist Receives Carole Demille Award for Outstanding Service, Contribution to Profession

...sted is past president of the Michigan Society for Infection Prevention & Control and led a state-wide task force to conduct a peer review of data mining technology on behalf of the Michigan Health and Safety Coalition. Currently, he collaborates with other infection preventionists to develop tools and ...

Lead Exposure in Workplace Still a Problem

... the need for stronger efforts by industry, labor, government and others to reduce occupational exposures in businesses such as battery manufacturing, mining of lead and zinc ores, and painting and paper-hanging. There also needs to be an effort to educate the public on how to prevent non-occupational expos...

GfK Healthcare Implements DecisionQ's FasterAnalytics(TM) Modeling Software

... New tool provides actionable insights for healthcare industry WASHINGTON, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- DecisionQ , a leader in data mining and analytical software and consulting today announced that GfK Healthcare , a global authority in providing fully-integrated healthcare market res...

MEDai Launches Patient-Specific Early Warning System for Hospitals

...o manage costs and MEDai feels this is a prime opportunity to leverage its best of breed predictive analytics to aid hospitals with sophisticated data mining and analytics. Pinpoint Review allows clinicians to identify and manage specific populations with greater efficiency and effectiveness," said Swati ...

MEDai Launches Patient-Specific Early Warning System for Hospitals

...nage costs and MEDai felt this to be the prime opportunity to leverage its best of breed predictive analytics to aid hospitals with sophisticated data mining and analytics. Pinpoint Review allows clinicians to identify and manage specific populations with greater efficiency and effectiveness," said Sw...

Tough Recessionary Times, but Frost & Sullivan Believes It's Not All Gloomy for African Healthcare Markets

...20081117/FSLOGO ) Whilst some sectors such as mining are already hard-hit, the full impact of the crisi...t of the crisis has been particularly harsh on the mining sector, it has also impacted on medical aid schemes in Africa. These schemes cater mostly for the mining sector and are now faced with dwindling membership...

Joplin Citizens and Health Organizations Call on Missouri Gov. Nixon for Study, Action on High Incidence of Birth Defects and Chronic Diseases in Community

...d work in Joplin," said, Christopher Gavigan, executive director of Healthy Child Healthy World. The health report notes the long history of lead mining and smelting and other industrial activity in the area, and its legacy of soil and water pollution. Lead causes a wide range of birth defects, as do o...

$5.5 million from Gates Foundation funds major study of childhood malnutrition

... work at eight sites in the developing world to address the root problems of malnutrition. By applying new genomic methods and computational tools for mining the massive data that emanate from the Malawi and Bangladesh sites, Gordon, Manary and their team, which also includes colleagues at the University of...

Compendia Bioscience Releases Oncomine Concepts Edition 4.0

...ly growing compendium of 30,000+ expertly curated cancer genomic profiles with a sophisticated analysis engine and a powerful web application for data mining and visualization. Oncomine facilitates target discovery and validation and supports the prioritization of tumor populations for drug development. ht...

Spiders, frogs and gecko among exciting discoveries found in Papua New Guinea

...ng biodiversity that benefits local communities and the global ecosystem. The findings will be used to inform future conservation activities, the PJV mining operation, and development decisions by the local and national government. "This underlines how passionate we are about our environmental responsi...

Papua New Guinea declares first national conservation area

...mally committed to prohibit all hunting and development such as logging and mining within the conservation area. Previous declarations of wildlife management areas in PNG have been less restrictive, allowing logging, mining and other destructive activities. Protecting the tropical forests of the YU...

MSA Announces Record Fourth Quarter and Full Year Sales

...or the year, primarily due to strong growth in Africa and Latin America as a result of ongoing growth initiatives in those markets and strength in the mining industry. Full year currency translation effects on International segment sales were not significant. Net income for the full year increased $2...

New Momentum Launches Anti-Counterfeiting Software for Pharmaceutical Companies

...to identify several large-scale, potential network rings. The company's Enterprise Brand Intelligence solution, which is based on an advanced web mining technology, gives pharmaceutical manufacturers greater visibility into the global internet activity on a dynamic 24/7 basis. A custom dashboard and e...

Industry Leading Data Quality and Householding Software Receives New Functionality for Enhanced Performance and Speed

...mer-premise installation or ASP delivered solution DataMentors leverages proprietary data discovery, reporting and analysis, campaign management, data mining and modeling practices, identifying insightful customer sales and marketing directions. For more information visit us on the web: www.datamento...