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FUJIFILM Dimatix Inkjet Printer Aids Researchers In Developing Paper-Based Biosensors To Detect Toxins
FUJIFILM Dimatix announced that a research team at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, working with Canada"s SENTINEL Bioactive Paper Network, has used its DMP-2800 Dimatix Materials Printer to develop a new inkjet method for printing bioactive inks (bioinks) on paper strips used to detect harmful substances that can make animals or humans sick or be used as bioterrorism agents.
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KPBS Examines San Diego County Board Of Supervisors' Opposition To Needle Exchange Program
KPBS examines the reasons why the San Diego Board of Supervisors will not support the city"s needle exchange program, which twice weekly provides clean needles to injection drug users as part of an effort to curb the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases. Dianne Jacob, chair of the board, said, "I think it particularly sends a wrong message to our kids. It sends a message to our kids that as county government, if we gave out clean needles for illegal drug use, that we condone illegal drug use. And we don"t. And it"s wrong." She said government support should go toward drug use prevention and treatment. Steffanie Strathdee, head of the division of global public health at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, has examined several needle exchange programs across the world, and said, "It hasn"t been associated with more people starting drug use at earlier ages, etc., ò€¦ In fact, it"s consistently been associated with reductions in high-risk behavior. And so there"s really no reason not to support it on a broader scale" (Goldberg, 7/8). This series of articles was supported by a Kaiser Family Foundation mini reporting fellowship.
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Meeting To Examine Human Behavior And The Threat Of Disease
As swine flu spread from Mexico to Texas and then fanned out farther in the United States, Americans began to alter their behavior. Families kept children home from school, postponed trips to the mall, and stayed home instead of eating out. In so doing, the American population may have inadvertently altered the behavior of the pathogen itself.
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DCP Comments On New Horizons - British Psychological Society

The British Psychological Society has welcomed the publication, of New Horizons, the government"s new plan for the development of mental health services. Dr John Hanna, director of the Policy Unit of the Society"s Division of Clinical Psychology says: "New Horizons promises to be the National Service Framework (NSF) - the next 10-year plan for mental health. "We welcome in particular its vision of fostering well-being rather than just treating mental ill health. We also welcome the use it makes of health economics and the developing evidence base about which treatments for mental health problems are most effective. "That evidence base shows that applied psychology has reached a position of parity with medicine, although that is not yet reflected in service delivery. We therefore disagree with the implication that the NSF has been fully implemented, particularly the NSF Standard 1 of preserving and enhancing mental will-being as well as preventing and detecting emergent psychological distress. "Nevertheless, we look forward to tangible policy proposals that, alongside effective commissioning and investment, will make New Horizon"s vision a reality." Clinical psychologists, working mainly in the National Health Service, use the results of psychological research to help people with mental and physical health problems. For more about clinical psychology visit http://www.bps.org.uk/clinicalpsychologists. British Psychological Society


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