The broadband and telecoms provider BT is rolling out a service for staff that it hopes will connect them in a new and yet very familiar way. Using the new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 system, BT is planning to create a sort of Facebook for BT staff, which it hopes will help improve communications throughout the company and allow groups to work together in a new way
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BT to roll out staff social site
The digital switchover currently taking place around the UK may appear to be random, but the organisation behind the digital television revolution, Digital UK, appears to have the scheme in hand as it prepares to move to the Channel Islands. In order to prepare the residents of the islands for the switchover, Digital UK will be running a series of ad campaigns to raise awareness of the switchover. This covers what residents of the Channel Islands need to do to make sure that they keep their TV going without any interruptions
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Switchover starts on Channel Islands
I write this as I slog through the complexity and confusion that is eBay’s “eBay Selling” app for the iPhone (selling my Dad’s old Palm Pre)– at this moment, I’m literally waiting for eBay’s app to upload photographs, my 5th attempt to get the Palm Pre listed on eBay through this iPhone app!! Someone needs to do an auction website + app for the iPhone that’s dead simple — like Posterous does for blogging. Posterous’s tagline on their frontpage is “the dead simple place to post everything” and I want to see “the dead simple place to sell anything.” Let me pre-fill my preferences and what-not on their website. Then point my iPhone’s camera at what I want to sell and take some photos
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Why isn’t there a ‘Posterous’-like auction site?
(PhysOrg.com) — A pathology test may help doctors distinguish between two separate but overlapping esophageal disorders that require different courses of treatment, according to a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Mast cell tryptase test may aid in diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis
(PhysOrg.com) — New results from a drilling expedition off Antarctica may help scientists learn more about a dramatic turn in climate 34 million years ago, when the planet cooled from a “greenhouse” to an “icehouse” state. In just 400,000 years – a blink of an eye in geologic time – carbon dioxide levels dropped, temperatures plunged and ice sheets formed over what was then the lush continent of Antarctica.
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Ocean Drilling Expedition off Antarctica May Predict Ice Sheet’s Response to Warmer Global Temperatures
Even with the widespread use of the Internet to get our daily dose of information, people who rely on the print media for their health information – along with those who turn to community organizations – tend to do better than Web-seekers at following a healthy lifestyle, new research finds.
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Seeking Health Info? Print Media Readers Make Healthier Choices
Unhealthy drinking practices are often seen among medical inpatients. While hospitalization is regarded by some as a “teachable moment” for motivating patients to decrease drinking, studies of brief hospital-based interventions have not always found decreases.
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Hospital interventions for medical inpatients with unhealthy drinking behaviors
Even when financial and healthcare barriers are removed, some parents remain hesitant to have their daughters receive the HPV vaccine. As a result, policymakers must develop and implement strategies to ensure optimal HPV vaccine uptake, says new research in this week’s PLoS Medicine.
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Parents need to be convinced their daughters should receive HPV vaccine
An experienced fruit fly researcher can tell at a glance whether the fly she is observing is male or female; a distinct pigmentation pattern on a fly’s body (a type of bristle found only on the legs of males) and differences in the genitalia are dead giveaways. But most of the fly’s body parts look identical in males and females, and until now, scientists had no idea whether “maleness” or “femaleness” extended to all of the insect’s cells and tissues
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Male or female? In flies, some cells can’t tell
Genetic differences in alcohol-metabolizing enzymes can significantly alter an individual’s risk for developing alcohol dependence (AD). One variant of the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme, ADH1B*3, is observed almost exclusively in populations with African ancestry and has also been associated with reduced rates of AD
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Genetic differences that make you sleepy when you drink can also protect against alcohol dependence
In a Policy Forum article that continues the PLoS Medicine series on Global Health Diplomacy, David Fidler (Indiana University School of Law) provides a case study of the negotiations to increase access to vaccines for influenza strains that suggest the goal of equitable access is far from certain.
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Equitable access to influenza vaccines not in sight
Scientists at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have identified a key molecular mechanism in breast cancer that enables tumor cells to spread to adjacent or distant parts of the body in a process called metastasis. This finding opens the way to new lines of research aimed at developing treatments for metastatic breast cancer.
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Key mechanism identified in metastatic breast cancer
The brains of problem gamblers react more intensely to “near misses” than casual gamblers, possibly spurring them on to play more, according to new research in the May 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The researchers found the brain region that responds to rewards by delivering a dose of the chemical dopamine was especially active in these individuals.
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Problem gamblers provoked by ‘near misses’ to gamble more
(PhysOrg.com) — NASA’s Terra satellite flew over the Deepwater Horizon rig’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, May 1 and captured a natural-color image of the slick from space. The oil slick resulted from an accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Image: NASA Satellite Imagery Keeping Eye on the Gulf Oil Spill
Children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis who received the antibiotic azithromycin did not experience improved lung function, compared to patients who received placebo, according to a study in the May 5 issue of JAMA.
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Use of antibiotic by children with cystic fibrosis does not result in improved lung function
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death rates will surge in China by up to 73 percent by 2030, due to aging, smoking, high blood pressure and other risk factors, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.
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By 2030, cardiovascular disease and death rates will surge in China
UK based users of Google’s webmail service will be glad to hear that their email addresses are set to become a lot less clunkier. Thanks to a trademark dispute over Gmail, UK users were forced to adopt the much lengthier @googlemail.com suffix. But apparently this row has now blown over, leaving British folk free to change their email to @gmail.com if they so wish.
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Googlemail can finally be Gmail in the UK
China has a way of alienating the rest of the world. Instead of using the standard protocol for wireless networks like the rest of the western world is using, it decided to develop its own. But its not stopping Apple from going into one of the world’s largest consumer market.
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Apple Tweaks iPhone Wifi for Chinese Market
(PhysOrg.com) — Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have provided the first clear demonstration that the theory of quantum mechanics applies to the mechanical motion of an object large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Their work satisfies a longstanding goal among physicists.
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Physicists Show Theory of Quantum Mechanics Applies to the Motion of Large Objects
The role of selenium in diabetes has been controversial, with some studies suggesting that it raises diabetes risk and others finding that it is protective. Now, research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism, has shown that, for men, high plasma selenium concentrations are associated with a lower occurrence of dysglycemia.
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Selenium protects men against diabetes