US considers moves to relieve morale crisis at energy labs

US moves to improve health decisions.

Anchoring at an island to relieve stress.

S tress erythropoiesis is increasingly recognized as more than simply an expansion of steady-state erythropoiesis. Rather, it is a process arising from unique progenitor cells with distinct quantitative and qualitative cytokine requirements. Increased erythropoietin (Epo) levels resulting from kidney hypoxia due to anemia, initiate the response of stress erythropoiesis. A progenitor, named stre...

Crisis deepens at the US Food and Drug Administration.

BMJ VOLUME 329 4 DECEMBER 2004 bmj.com The US Food and Drug Administration, rocked by controversy in recent months, has now admitted that a senior management official secretly contacted a whistleblower group. That official attempted to discredit Dr David Graham, the FDA’s scientist who criticised the agency during US Senate hearings, saying that the FDA failed to protect the public when it appr...

How to deal with the US financial crisis at no cost to the taxpayer

Some 80 years after the Great Depression the stream of analysis of causes and of actual or hypothetical alternative policies continues. The analysis of the present crisis, particularly the question of how to deal with it, are still in a very early stage. The most recent contributions are largely reactions to the 700 billion dollar bailout of the financial sector proposed by treasury secretary P...

Diffusing Crisis Management Solutions through Living Labs: Opportunities and Challenges

Despite increasing focus on user involvement among the developers of crisis management technologies, the diffusion of these solutions in target user communities is slow. This paper discusses to what extent the Living Lab approach, based on open innovation and co-creation between users and developers, could facilitate the diffusion of crisis management solutions. Our analysis shows correspondenc...