What's really making you sick? Plant pathologists offer the science behind Sick Building Syndrome
Science-based identification of mold and other causes of Sick Building Syndrome may improve its management, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS). Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) refers to a situation in which building occupants experience health problems while inside a particular building. Human health issues typically associated with SBS range from allerg...Researchers seek to discover what really happens when a virus enters the body
A well-respected researcher who is now a chief of an immunology laboratory of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has rocked the boat in the past few years for the experts in the understanding of the autoimmune system. NIH's Polly Matzinger has developed the "danger model," suggesting that the immune system is more concerned with damage detected on the basis of a biological cell's deat...What does the public really know about HPV?
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States, and certain "high risk" types have been shown to cause cervical cancer. Despite recent advances in the detection and prevention of HPV, the link between the virus and cervical cancer is not well known to the public. In June 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first vaccin...With patents and research tools, when is private really public?
<br...The year of working together (really!)
I share this with a minor tremor of trepidation. I worked in IT publishing through the late '80s, when each year was declared w...Is your competitive edge really a wedge?
The business media has been filled with stories critical of the ethics of contemporary business executives and organizations. But, this is much less so in the academic literature. A noteworthy exception is "Beyond Selfishness by Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu, in the Fall 2002 issue of the Sloan Management Review (available for purchase at <a href="http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=171757...Really Listening to Customers...AND Employees
This week I spent time with a leading producer of fashion goods interviewing some of their best customers and employees. The mission find out what aspects of the shopping experience really matter to customers and which practices of the sales representatives make a difference to how much the customer buys and how satisfied they are with the overall in-store experience. Customers were in...Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?
A statistically significant increase in the incidence of malignant tumors, lymphomas and leukemias in rats exposed to varying doses of aspartame appears // to link the artificial sweetener to a high carcinogenicity rate, according to a study accepted for publication today by the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). The authors of the study, the first to demonstrate multi...Is Ignorance Really Bliss? – Cases of Breast Cancer in Me
Men are simply unaware of the symptoms of breast cancer or those who suspect it, feel awkward to seek help, according to an expert on cancer, Professor Ian Fentiman. // The Prof says that in the UK alone, the yearly statistics show that about 250 men test positive for cancer and nearly 70 succumb to it. This is also because nearly half of the patients go undiagnosed till the cancer has a...Are Near death Experience Really Just A Dream
In a case controlled study Dr. Kevin Nelson, a neurologist and study author of the University of Kentucky tells that people who have had near-death experiences// are more likely to mix up dreams and reality than those who have not. At times of extreme danger or trauma, many people report out-of-body experiences, seeing intense lights, or a feeling of peace. He feels that near-death ex...