A 15-year-old student shot himself when police stormed a classroom where he was holding hostage 23 students and a teacher at a high school in Marinette, Wisconsin, on Monday.
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NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TMC and Crossfire Media today announced that the SIP Tutorial will return to ITEXPO on February 2-4, 2011, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. TMC and Crossfire Media also announced that a full-day SIP Tutorial will take place next Wednesday at the Liberty Hotel in Boston, MA, on December 8th. The SIP Tutorial provides updates on the latest Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services, including: messaging; server types; security; firewall and NAT operation; SIP
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Guidelines making AIDS tests part of routine care have helped get more Americans tested, but more than half of adults still have no idea if they are infected….
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MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A recent article released in Pediatric Nursing discusses the efficacy of the VeinViewer, a vascular imaging device by Christie Medical Holdings, Inc.
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Aksu City, China (AHN) – While elementary school children were walking down the stairs toward their playground, some fell triggering a stampede. According to reports nearly 100 students were hospitalized and one is listed as being in a coma.
According to a government spokesman who refused to disclose his name, the incident occurred at 12 p.m. at an elementary school in Aksu city in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Safety in China’s schools and its nearly 220 million primary and middle school students has been the topic of public scrutiny after several attacks on schoolchildren in various parts of the country over the last few months. The attacks prompted school officials to deploy more guards and surveillance cameras on the premises.
The recent stampede puts into focus another aspect of the issue that must be addressed in the protection and safety of China’s schoolchildren.
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Seoul, South Korea (AHN) – Two pig farms in South Korea have been found to have cases of foot and mouth disease, the government said Monday in announcing the outbreak of the livestock disease.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries confirmed the outbreak at farms in Andong, 166 miles southeast of the capital Seoul. Some 9,000 pigs on the farms have been quarantined.
Authorities will cull some 23,000 animals within a 1.86-mile radius from the farms to prevent the spread of the disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals.
All livestock farms within a 12-mile radius from the infected farms will be prohibited from selling or moving any livestock.
The last FMD outbreak in the country was in April but the World Organization for Animal Health declared the country to be free of the disease on Sept. 27.
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Human excreta could have a key role in securing future food security, helping prevent a sharp drop in yields of crops such as wheat due to a shortage of phosphorus inputs….
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Signs of growing drug resistance to mosquito-borne malaria raising concern
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LONDRA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), provider del software di modelling avanzato gPROMS e di servizi tecnici correlati basati sui modelli, ha oggi annunciato i primi classificati nell’edizione 2010 del prestigioso riconoscimento PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize. I vincitori del primo premio, del valore di € 3.000, sono Ala Eldin Bouaswaig e il professor Sebastian Engell del Process Dynamics and Operations Group della Technische Universität Dortmund (Germania) per la ricerca
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Babies under two have second the highest rates of flu, after the elderly. Giving them the flu vaccine has been found to be effective in preventing influenza. Researchers from Turku University Hospital, Finland wrote in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases that vaccination guidelines should be revised. The authors added that babies under two also tend to spread the flu to other members of the household as well as the community…
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