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Corals have as many genes as us

You probably think that corals are very simple animals who also have a very simple genome. According to an international team of researchers from Australia, Germany and Japan, this is not true and corals might be more complex than us. They say that corals have as many as 20 or...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Simulation reveals Internet will be fast to go in event of pandemic

How will government function in the event of a global pandemic? Not over the Internet. That's the result of a crisis simulation conducted by Booz Allen Hamilton and the World Economic Forum. Among the many, many devastating results of such a pandemic revealed by the Influenza Pandemic Simulation (click here...

Tags: Internet, pandemic

Blog posts 2006-05-01

Planning for the unthinkable

The following few paragraphs are excerpted from the 2005 UK Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan: “Most experts believe that it is not a question of whether there will be another severe influenza pandemic, but when.” -- The Government’s Chief Medical Officer, 2002 The widespread occurrence – and continued spread...

Tags: pandemic

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Are you ready for avian flu?

Recently there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of a pandemic flu and its affects. Most of the discussion has centered on what the Feds can do. President Bush has called for $7B to prepare and my old boss, Mike Leavitt, has been on the...

Tags: pandemic, business continuity, business continuity planning

Blog posts 2005-11-08

Additional Resources

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Flu pandemic disproportionately infects, kills young people; are some getting preferred treatment?

Overhyped, almost hysteriaand blogs like these of course add to that. All in the name of $.Money needs to be made pharma, existence needs to be legitimized (health boards & governments), and the media of course needs to sell. Yep, the incentives point to one direction.Problem is, there is no...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Flu Pandemic, death rate, H1N1 flu

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Flu pandemic disproportionately infects, kills young people; are some getting preferred treatment?

Analyzing the first 1000 H1N1 cases in the State of California, younger people were dying at a higher rate.....Alberta Health Services fires employee for giving preferred treatment to NHL Calgary Flames and their families. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Treatment, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-05

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?

Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...

Tags: NETWORKING, H1N1 flu, network, marketing, network congestion, flu, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?

The General Accountability Office has rapped the Department of Homeland Security for failure to plan for Internet congestion in the event of a severe pandemic that could overwhelm networks. The worry: Will the Internet hold up if everyone has to work from home under quarantine? by Larry Dignan

Tags: General Accountability Office, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

JAMA studies push the need for H1N1 flu shot

Still fighting that war eh, Dana? :)Get over it man.Interesting piece of information:Recent news in Canada:"Four Canadian studies involved about 2,000 people, health officials told CBC News. Researchers found people who had received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to get sick with the H1N1 virus."So......

Tags: H1N1 flu, flu, regular flu

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

JAMA studies push the need for H1N1 flu shot

Like the 1918 pandemic this bug seems to seek out the young and healthy. If you're sick enough to be hospitalized there's a fair chance you won't come out alive. Modern medicine is better than it was a century ago but we still haven't licked this thing. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: H1N1 Flu, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-13

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...

Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Flu shot controversy illustrates compliance problem

I refuse the flu shot every year...and definately will be refusing the H1N1. As a young adult with a healthy immune system I see no point. Sure I may get the sniffles - but diet, exercise, and such take care of most of it. Who knows what is ACTUALLY in...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, SECURITY, compliance, flu shot, flu

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

A single national market for health care

health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Do we have a deadly date with El Nino?

Seems to be drawing a long bowOk, so there was an El Nino in 1918 and a flu pandemic started in the same year. The so-called flu season essentially follows winter around the globe - it's nearly always flu season somewhere. Given that an El Nino event occurs every...

Tags: El Nino

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Do we have a deadly date with El Nino?

Some newly published research from Texas A & M indicates: 1) El Nino events are not getting stronger due to climate change 2) The 1918 El Nino encouraged the flu pandemic that year 3) There may be lesson to learn this year as we have an El...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-15

HHS News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)

HHS Health and Human Services News Reader grabs the top stories from Health and Human Services and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers HHS News, Hurricane PSAs, Pandemic Flu news releases, FDA press releases, FDA recalls, food and cosmetics announce, cements, science selections, avian influenza,...

Tags: FDA, Mobile, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Splaysoft, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-02

TrekNet VTS (Visitor Tracking Solution) 1.1.3489.14796 (Windows)

Save time and resources to record information of all visitors who enter your company's premises with TrekNet VTS. By eliminating the need for them to manually write their details on a log book, TrekNet VTS's self registration mode allows them to perform easy data entry as they enter and leave...

Tags: Visitor, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-28

Another view: SOA is like a mosquito, spreading viral data

Just as the Internet has shown itself to be a speed-of-light carrier of rumors, gossip, and misinformation, so can service oriented architecture within an organization. I just came across new book titled "Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic," written by Neal Fishman, program director for...

Tags: SOA, Mosquito, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-17