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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust delivers same day patient discharge via BigHand Digital Dictation

...kloads. Importantly, secretaries are now able to identify and expedite urgent patient reports, transcribing as soon as they are submitted, rather than trawling through hours of tape dictation and instructions. The Trust's secretarial teams are now working much more tightly, producing documentation in the fast...

Scientists Identify Four Genes That Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer

... University of Cambridge claim to have identified four genes that raise the risk of the disease. They made this breakthrough by using the new trawling technique, which allowed them to assess 200,000 blocks of DNA simultaneously instead of one by one. They believe that their findings may help ...

Four Points to Live up to 100

...Japan with 272,000 and India with 111,000. In new research published in New Scientist, scientists have drawn the list of 10 commandments after trawling through medical studies published over the past 50 years examining why more people are living longer. The conclusion is that taking good care ...

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Shrimp trawling may boost mercury in red snapper, study suggests

Fishery experts have known for years that shrimp trawling operations in the Gulf of Mexico are contributing to sharp declines in the ranks of Red Snapper, one of the most delicious and popular marine fish on the seafood menu. While it's clear that thousands of young snapper are killed and wast...

Bottom trawling impacts, clearly visible from space

Boston MA: Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space. As a result of scientific studies showing that bottom trawling kills vast numbers of corals, s...

UMaine teams with fishermen to study affects of trawling on seafloor ecology

Working in cooperation with Maine trawler captain Cameron McLellan and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, UMaine graduate student Emily Knight and UMaine Marine Science professor Les Watling recently completed a long-term study that examines the effects of groundfish trawling on the complex ecol...

Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems recoverable

...years, and those affected by either invasive species, mining, oil spills or trawling recovered in as little as five years. Most ecosystems took longer to recove...nvasive species, logging, mining, oil spills, overfishing, power plants and trawling and from the interactions of those disturbances. Major natural disturbances...

Scientists achieve first tracking of salmon from headwaters in Rockies through Pacific to Alaska

...en sturgeon ( www.eol.org/taxa/17041139 ) are protected through habitat conservation efforts in California's Sacramento River but may be threatened by trawling off northwest Vancouver Island where we now know they spend a great deal of time. Since sturgeon meander between estuaries, a continuous POST-typ...

New research reveals shark superhighways and hotspots

...200 meters. Despite being out of sight, these sharks (and their cousins, the rays and skates) are not out of reach of modern fishing equipment. Bottom trawling in particular is threatening to severely deplete these populations. New research by Colin Simpfendorfer, a shark researcher at James Cook Universit...

Stanford researchers say living corals thousands of years old hold clues to past climate changes

...s are the equivalent of the bristlecone pine in the deep ocean, he said. They are placed in jeopardy not only by coral harvesters but also by deep-sea trawling and long-line fishing. Clearly a different frame of mind is needed, he said. Its not a renewable resource. Roark and his associates found that Gerard...

Invasive Australian jellyfish sighted in Gulf of Mexico in summer 2007

...er in terms of their sting. A preponderance of jellies, however, could pose a threat to the commercial fishing and shrimping industry as they foul up trawling nets and consume eggs and larvae of important fishery species. We just started getting reports of Phyllorhiza appearing on the east coast of Florid...

UN review shows need to halt destructive fishing practice

...he review said. The draft review called bottom trawling a particular concern, due to its tendency to over-...s for interim steps such as a moratorium on bottom trawling until formal conservation and management systems c...s CI's marine conservation division, likens bottom trawling to trying to capture a songbird with a bulldozer. ...

Ocean acidification threatens cold-water coral ecosystems

...efs are home to more than 1,300 species of animals, a diversity rivaling some better known tropical coral reefs. Until now, scientists believed bottom trawling ?a commercial fishing method in which vessels drag large, heavily weighted nets across the bottom ?to be the greatest threat to cold-water corals. No...

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