Valenti International Responds to the San Diego Union Tribune Article 'Can't buy me love,' Fraught With Inaccuracies and Slanted for Sensationalism, Journalistic Integrity Appears Lost.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Can you really trust the search results on Google and Yahoo? Appearing as if it were yesterday, although it was published in 2005, the San Diego Union Tribune article "Can't buy me love," appears in Google and Yahoo search results as if it were hot of the pres...

The health care industry -- a system fraught with conflicts

Close to 50 million uninsuredsteeply rising insurance premiumsemployers cutting healthcare benefits. There's plenty wrong with this picture. In Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars: Facing the Ever-Expanding Market for Medical Care, public health expert Robert Kaplan takes America's healthcare indus...

Long-term care fraught with uncertainties for elderly baby boomers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. The continued decline of the nursing home once the mainstay care for the frail elderly and an upsurge in popularity of assisted living will lead to many dramatic changes in long-term care, according to a University of Florida expert and editor of a new book on the subject. ...

President Bush's AIDS-Fighting Program Fraught With Inconsistencies

Washington - A team of investigators have allegedly found inconsistencies in President Bush's AIDS-fighting program//, targeted for the under–privileged nations, which has made it difficult, to gauge the success of the programme. Audit officials claim that the three year old AIDS program, val...

FRC: Ryan Bill Increases Abortion While Claiming to 'Reduce Need' for Abortion

...ng congressional districts the cover they need against charges they support abortion-on-demand. "Whatever Rep. Ryan's intent, his proposal is fraught with funding for abortion providers and provisions that further encourage promiscuous sex and discourage parental involvement," Perkins concluded. ...

Business Insurance Now Offers Professional Liability Insurance for Allied Health Care Providers

...get sued face tremendous costs for a legal defense, whether they're found to be at fault or not," Cochran says. "The health care business is fraught with claims, and liability can be significant. Allied health care providers are taking a big liability risk when working with patients while uninsured...

The power of prayer?

...archers leading the studies applied clinical scientific methodologies to the study of intercessory prayer, but Cadge found that even that approach was fraught with problems. For example, researchers asked whether the people not being prayed for by the intercessors were truly a control group, since their fami...

Study Refutes Depression Gene Finding

...angle how this effect arose. The authors of the new study warned that a research strategy that tries to tie genes with environmental factors may be fraught with danger, but that scientists should be looking at both environmental and genetic factors in trying to account for mental illness. "We have to...

Holiday Cheer or Holiday Fear? Free Resource for a Happier Holiday

... SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Holidays are always fraught with tension. This year, with the country in recession, families have a heightened challenge if they are to maintain holiday cheer. While they won't ...

Expert: Long-term care health coverage a hidden casualty of economic slide

...se it typically provides just eight hours of care rather than a full day. "I think that the essential takeaway is that private-market solutions are fraught with uncertainty and that prospective policyholders need to be sure that they will be able to afford the policy if there are significant rate increase...

Fraught in Medical Technology

New Conflict of Interest Violations Revealed at California Stem Cell Institute

...ere are consequences when they are broken," said Simpson. Proposition 71, passed by 59 percent of Californians in 2004, created an oversight board fraught with potential conflicts of interest. "Most of the people handing out the money are the very same people from the institutions that get the money," sa...

Novel Technology Breaks Through Cancer Pain

... MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Cancer patients fraught with flare-ups of pain, or breakthrough pain, may soon receive some assistance in the form of a new easy-to-use oral drug delivery system developed by...

Fraught in Medical Dictionary

Bed-wetting

... bed wetting is usually simply due to a delay in the maturation of the ... Nocturnal Enuresis ( bed wetting ) is a relatively common disorder fraught with ... Most children who are still experiencing bed wetting at this point will be boys ... ...

Fraught in Biological News

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

...omponents in complex systems such as a living cell. Labeling a given cellular component and tracking it through a typical biological environment is fraught with issues: the probe can randomly turn on and off, competes with light emitting from the cell, and often requires such intense laser excitation, it ...

New technique is quantum leap forward in understanding proteins

...s to actually image their interactions using x-ray crystallography. This has provided invaluable, but very limited, information, because the method is fraught with drawbacks including extreme labor intensity and great difficulty in actually capturing the intended protein interactions. Assistant Professor Hen...

Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas in Bioethics

... Few areas of public policy have been fraught with as much controversy as bioethics. Although some people dispute whether it is even a discipline, bioethics tackles some of the most complex and se...

Food biotechnology: real world challenges

...e an effective way to enhance students abilities in specific content areas. "This is important in disciplines where the subject matter is difficult, fraught with controversy, or raises complex sociological, environmental, and political issues," says Snyder. ...

Central targets may hinder wider waste management objectives

...have been difficult to achieve in isolation". The research findings suggest, however, that partnership working is rarely straightforward and can be fraught with difficulties and tensions. Emotional commitment, shared vision, agreed objectives, development and maintenance of trust, transparency, respect an...

Brain inflammation may be friend, not foe, for Alzheimer's patients

...r’s vaccine has at times been promising, reducing the number of plaques in the brains of animals and a few people with the disease, but it’s also been fraught with difficulty, producing side effects such as encephalitis or severe brain inflammation in people with Alzheimer’s. “The potential to treat Alz...

Cells from amniotic fluid used to tissue-engineer a new trachea

...s (in the hope that tissue would scar around the stents and form a tube), but with limited success. "These are all makeshift solutions, and they're fraught with complications infection, narrowing of the trachea, reoperation," Fauza says. Working with sheep, considered a good model for humans (lambs grow ...

Researchers discover mechanism for multiplying adult stem cells

... exploring the potential of adult stem cells for possible therapies. But this field raises other difficulties. Although adult stem cell research isn't fraught with the controversies that surround embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells are extremely difficult to isolate and then to multiply in a lab dish. Now...

Fraught in Biological Technology

Controller's Stem Cell Agency Audit Ignores California Agency's Built-in Flaws

...cies, grant administration, administrative expenses and expenditures. "The problem is that Prop 71 deliberately created an oversight board that is fraught with conflict," said John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Stem Cell Oversight and Accountability Project. "The board is dominated by repre...

Medical Research Award Goes to Adult Stem Cell Scientists at a Kansas Not-for-Profit Organization

...ve that these adult stem cells, which we have termed endometrial regenerative cells (ERC), offer a novel alternative to embryonic stem cells which are fraught with scientific and ethical issues." "The ERC population appears to be superior to other stem cell types. These cells do not require matching with...

Stem Cell Agency Finally Reveals Institutions Involved in Conflict Problem

...heir propensity to keep shooting themselves in the foot." Proposition 71, passed by 59 percent of Californians in 2004, created an oversight board fraught with potential conflicts of interest. "Most of the people handing out the money are the very same people from the institutions that get the money," sa...

California Stem Cell Board Member Violates Conflict Rules; Should Resign From Committee, Consumer Group Says

...ht board members do not," said Simpson. FTCR noted that Proposition 71 that created the stem cell institute established an oversight board that is fraught with built-in conflicts of interest. Most of the members are representatives of the very institutions expected to receive most of the research grants....

California IVF Experts Tap Ethics Committee for Guidance

...ifornia's most prominent fertility specialists. "Given the increasingly rapid advances in reproductive technology and genetic research, this field is fraught with challenging questions around the beginning of life and the proper amount of intervention in the earliest life stages," said Dr. Mary Hinckley of ...

Novel Technology Breaks Through Cancer Pain

... MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Cancer patients fraught with flare-ups of pain, or breakthrough pain, may soon receive some assistance in the form of a new easy-to-use oral drug delivery system developed by...

PKWare launches new enterprise product line, adds new features to PKZip

...rbanes-Oxley. According to Tim Kennedy, president and chief operating officer of PKWare, Widespread deployment of data security solutions has been fraught with problems not from technology limitations but rather from usability and deployment concerns. The company has added features to the ZIP compre...

UW working to salvage multi-million HR software project

...oject that was put on hold after approximately $25 million was spent working to implement it over a five-year period. The project was determined to be fraught with problems, including a lack of good project management. The Appointments, Payroll and Benefits Systems project (ABPS) for the UW System was put...

Despite gains, women still face bias in science careers

...plementation of programs to help women overcome ingrained barriers, the career path of most women scientists at universities remains a difficult trek, fraught with roadblocks of bias, a sometimes chilly campus climate and the challenge of balancing family and work. That, in short, is the conclusion of a g...

New Tools for Making and Processing Protein Microarrays.

... and the manner in which the protein is folded via covalent or non-covalent interactions. The production of protein microarrays is therefore fraught with many more problems than those encountered in the use of DNA microarrays. In addition, the use of protein microarrays requires that the assays per...