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Red Wine Good for
Smokers, Scientists Find
Yahoo, Reuters News, August 31
Researchers have reported that there are enough beneficial chemicals in
two glasses of red wine to suspend the harmful effect that smoking one cigarette has on
the functioning of arteries.
French Minister
says no plans to quit over deaths
Yahoo Health, August 29
French Health Minister Jean-Francois Mattei said he had no plans to
resign despite a furore over an unprecedented 11,400 deaths linked to a summer heatwave
but promised a thorough investigation of the crisis.
FBI
arrests MSBlast worm suspect
News.com, August 29
Federal law enforcement officials confirmed that they
have arrested 18 year old Jeffrey Lee Parson of Minneapolis as a suspect in the MSBlast
worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers.
Microsoft statement on the arrest.
Microsoft, August 29
Microsoft thanks the FBI, Secret Service and US Attorney’s office for
the prompt and effective manner in which they have investigated this incident.
IBM wins Boeing Service
deal
News.com, August 29
IBM has landed a three-year contract with extension options to manage
the aerospace giant's corporate-wide voice communications network. The deal, estimated by
IBM to be worth $160 million, covers voice services to Boeing's network of nearly 150,000
users.
Chief Executive of the new Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
(MHRA) is announced
UK Department of Health Press Release, August 29
Professor Woods, currently
Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Leicester, will take up the appointment on
1 January 2004.
The MHRA is responsible for the regulation and safety of medicines and healthcare
products. Its primary objective is to protect public health by taking all possible steps
to ensure that medicines, healthcare products and medical equipment are safe for those who
use them. Their website is at www.mhra.gov.uk
Microsoft may change
Internet Explorer software
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), August 27
Microsoft may alter its dominant Internet
Explorer Web browser following a ruling against it in a Chicago court in August. The Eolas
v. Microsoft case related to US Patent
5,838,906
Britain's August Heat Wave May Have Killed at Least 1,000
The Independent, London, August 27
The Office for National Statistics said that
there were 907 more deaths registered in the week ending 15 August when temperatures
peaked at a record 38.1C (100.6F) than the average for the same week over the previous
five years.
Amazon
goes after spammers
News.com, August 26
Amazon.com said that it filed
11 lawsuits against marketers that allegedly used its name when sending bogus e-mail.
Doctors like web for drug
info, and still want perks
Cyberatlas, August 26
Doctors are increasingly turn to the Web for drug
information, giving the pharmaceutical industry a prime marketing opportunity, yet
physicians still want to continue the offline practice of receiving lavish perks for
paying attention.
Advanstar
Communications to Acquire Medical Economics, Dental and Veterinary Publishing Portfolio
from Thomson Healthcare for $135 Million
PR Newswire, August 25
Advanstar Communications Inc., a prominent
world-wide market-focused publishing, tradeshow and marketing services company, announced
today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of The Thomson
Corporation to acquire its portfolio of healthcare industry-specific magazines and related
custom project services.
The portfolio is composed of three groups: Medical Economics Communications Group
headquartered in Montvale, NJ; Dental Products Report Group in Northfield, IL; and
Veterinary Healthcare Communications Group in Lenexa, KS.
Thomson acquires Techstreet Inc
Company press release, August 25th
Techstreet, Inc.—a digital content
delivery company that provides full-text industry standards and specifications to
engineers, researchers, and technical and information professionals world-wide.
Digital Media Publishers Must Have
Portable Digital Rights Management Standards - Gartner
managinginformation.com, August 22
A joint study by GartnerG2, a research service of Gartner, Inc. and The
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School has been undertaken into
digital rights management.
Spam blockers threaten publishers' opt-in email services
Online Publishing News, August 22
A study has shown that up to 17 per cent of
bona fide opt-in email Alerts are blocked by ISPs. The top 12 ISPs in the US incorrectly
block or filter 17 per cent of permission-based e-mail messages, according to a by Return
Path's Assurance Services division. This accounts for a growing proportion of the decline
in email delivery rates in the US.
Copyright
Circle publishes more news items
managinginformation.com, August 21
The
Copyright Circle has issued another news bulletin, including items on the Mechanical
Copyright Protection Society scheme being referred to the Copyright Tribunal, a fake Jamie
Oliver cookery book, and the School Library Association issuing copyright guidelines.
Online document search reveals secrets
NewScientist.com news service, August 15
Many documents published online may
unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US
computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to
unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online.
Byers' paper has been submitted for publication in the IEEE journal Security and
Privacy.
Possible Conflict of Interest within Medical Profession
HON News, August 15
Nearly half of medical school
faculty members who serve on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) also serve as consultants
to the pharmaceutical industry -- a situation that can cause potential conflicts of
interest. The troubling finding comes in a study published Aug. 15 in Academic Medicine
Internet nibbles at print media's lunch
CBS.MarketWatch.com, August 12
An annual report on the
communications industry by Veronis Suhler Stevenson says the Web accounted for 0.8 percent
of the time consumers spent with media in 1997
What You Should Know About the Blaster
Worm
Microsoft support, August 11
Users of the
following products, should check out Microsoft support, as they are vulnerable to
infection by this worm:
- Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0
- Microsoft Windows® 2000
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003
New guidelines
help doctors make safer Internet prescriptions
American Medical Association, August 8
The AMA have issued new
guidelines to help doctors safely and securely prescribe medications to patients over the
Internet.
Free online journal gives sneak preview
NewScientist.com news service, August 15
The non-profit,
on-line publisher, the Public Library of Science, has released a sneak preview of the
research papers it will be giving away for free from October. Its first journal, PLoS
Biology, is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal intended to compete head-to-head with the
most prestigious paid-for journals.
UK
verdict on EU science funding
BioMedCentral, August 1
The
UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee has released the results of an
investigation into the value the United Kingdom gains from the EuropeanCommission's
research Framework Programmes. These are the main source of centralised European Union
funding for research.
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