Wisconsin pushes for adoption of electronic health records
"The field of medicine has yet to harness the power of information technology at the most important point in the health care system - patient treatment," Doyle said in a statement, citing statist...Biotech Alliance pushes ahead in SE Wisconsin with likely state funding
A drive to unite the research efforts of southeast Wisconsin received a boost late last week with an approved proposal for $2.5 million in research capital. The Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance voted 15-1 to provide funding to the Biomedical Technology Alliance, an organization of five universities encouraging collaboration in southeast Wisconsin. The funding, proposed by <a href...Neurognostics pushes early prediction of brain disease
"MRI is the most popular and useful mapping technique in the world ... in research," said Steve Rao, founder and chief science...'Copycat Attitude' Pushes Kids to Commit Suicide
Peer influence may be driving many adolescents to commit suicide, say psychiatrists.// Adolescents who commit suicide may be suffering from deeper psychological disorders, and therefore the immediate incident that triggers a suicide may be misleading. Commenting on Rahul, the 11-year-old who took his life Tuesday because his mother refused to buy him a kite, Sameer Parek...US Government Pushes Ahead With New Meat Inspection System
The US government is to push ahead with a new risk-based meat inspection system in April despite concerns raised by industry and consumer groups. // Federal meat inspectors will be conducting "robust" risk-based inspection (RBI) in 254 processing plants in 30 locations starting in April, said the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Food Safey, Dr Richard...EU Pushes Asian Nations on Climate Change Goals
Amid discord on climate change policy, ministers from Asia - including India's - met European Union members in the German port of Hamburg for talks on world crises. The two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of 43 nations Monday was marked by a division between European countries seeking deep cuts in world carbon-dioxide emissions and Asian governments countering that they did not caus...