28-year old traveled to University of Maryland Medical Center from Georgia
News releases have been visible to the public since Newswise introduced the first online news release distribution service in 1992. Now, with a new commenting feature, Newswise is the first news release distribution service to incorporate public commenting into an early phase of the news process. This development marks another major step to integrate the phenomenon of social media more fully with the news process.
Newswise Blogs now have a permanent home at Newswise.com. Three new sections to the Newswise blog will highlight the top news stories of the day, discuss media relations strategies, and start conversations with public relations professionals. The Newswise blog is part of Newswise's ongoing effort to engage the new media and social media community.
Increasing interest in health care has lead reporters to seek more sources for health news than ever before. And, as more and more consumers use the web to research health information, the growing demand for health news has an increasing influence on the health industry. In response to these trends, Newswise has developed a new category for medical news called Health Marketplace.
Berk Law PLLC along with co counsel, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy and Keith Miller, filed an opposition to JPMorganChase’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit brought on behalf of victims of a $250 million Ponzi Scheme.
Attorneys have filed an action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California accusing yet another bank of nurturing a Ponzi scheme. The complaint was filed as a class action suit on behalf of victims of a $150 million Ponzi scheme involving thousands of defrauded investors and the promise of safe, high yield CDs.
A Complaint filed October 22, 2009 in Federal District Court in Tampa, Florida alleges that Bank of America was at the center of yet another Ponzi scheme. The operator of this scheme, 27 year-old Beau Diamond, defrauded hundreds of investors from Florida and around the country of at least $37 million. He claimed to be an experienced trader in off exchange foreign currencies. In truth, he had no such experience and was not registered to sell securities or trade foreign currencies for others.
What is this so-called "new media", and what does its growing prominence mean to communications professionals? As part of Newswise's ongoing New Media Strategy, this report provides an overview of our definition of the new media and an introduction to some new media strategies.
In a changing landscape of new media on the web, major media outlets may need to address how their staff conduct themselves on many popular sites. The New York Times recently announced a New Media Policy for its staff; will other newspapers soon follow suit and issue new media policies of their own?
Twitter is one of the fastest growing social media sites on the web, where users "micro-blog" in 140-character-limit posts that answer the question "what are you doing?" It has grown to a phenomenon where news breaks, new media pros broadcast their views, and regular citizens rub elbows with the media elite. Newswise has compiled some helpful pointers for how to navigate your way in the Twitter world.
New Media and Social Networking sites Blogger and Facebook dominate the battle for web traffic in 2008. The popularity of these services testifies to the high value internet users place on being able to do two things; create original content, and connect with people on the web.
Newswise announces the prototype of the Newswise Blog. As part of our developing New Media Strategy, the Newswise Blog will go live Friday, March 13, hosted on the popular blogging site Blogger. The blog will be accessible at newswiseblog.blogspot.com while we develop, test, and build a permanent home for the blog on Newswise.com.
National Turkey Federation offers tips to fight escalating food costs.
The following stories have been posted to Newswise in the past week. They are included in the Election Issues Wire for their timeliness and relevance. All Newswise politics stories are available at the Breaking News: U.S. Presidential Elections Channel.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Cancer Partnership have awarded Yale Cancer Center with a grant to launch a statewide clinical trials network to promote innovative cancer research. The $745,288 grant is for the development of a clinical trials network and to create the necessary supportive infrastructure to sustain the network on behalf of the State's clinical researchers.
Combining a breast cancer patient's clinical characteristics with a genomic profile of her tumor may provide important information for predicting an individual patient's prognosis and accurately guiding treatment options, according to a new study led by researchers in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC) and Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP).
Howard McLeod, Ph.D., directs the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy (IPIT) in the UNC School of Pharmacy. McLeod, Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers on pharmacogenomics, applied therapeutics, or clinical pharmacology and continues to work to integrate genetics principles into clinical practice to advance individualized medicine.
Twenty years after opening its doors as the Rocky Mountain region's only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, the University of Colorado Cancer Center has become one of the nation's premier institutions for cancer research, education, patient care and outreach.
The McGill Cancer Centre (MCC) was created in 1978 in order to bring together the scientists working in the area of cancer at McGill University. The establishment of such entity was necessary to integrate the multidisciplinary research approaches and to ensure an accelerated rate of discovery of molecular targets as well as to speed up the development of new effective drugs against cancer. In 2008, the internationally renowned centre is expanding basic cancer research programs, which will include the field of knowledge translation.
Nevada Cancer Institute continues to pave a path in cutting edge research towards cancer treatment including an intense investigation in the development of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Newswise thematic wires provide an opportunity to augment and expand media coverage by reaching both the media, and a public audience of professionals interested in science and medical news. The Newswise/AACR Cancer Research Awareness Wire was delivered in early April to reporters only, to promote May as Cancer Research Awareness Month, and today the wire goes live to the public. After the jump, Newswise reports on the success and future opportunities of thematic wires to maximize exposure in the media and with the public.
In UNSTRANGE MINDS: Remapping the World of AUTISM, Roy Richard Grinker, an award-winning anthropologist and father of a daughter with autism, presents the controversial idea that there is no evidence for an autism epidemic. The high rates of diagnosis today are instead evidence that scientists are finally, after all these years, counting cases correctly.
A new book, ROAR OF THE HEAVENS, by journalist Stefan Bechtel, tells the complete story of Hurricane Camille, an unprecedented storm, following a handful of survivors through the great hurricane and its aftermath. In the process, the book elegantly explains the science of hurricanes, with the assistance of meteorologist Jeffrey Halverson, PhD, of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Newswise has created two new ways for journalists to manage information and boost productivity. We are introducing two new tools "” one for journalists writing about major breaking news events, and another for feature reporters.
Ipods and MP3 players are still hot, denim is not, and this holiday shopping season is going to be longer than ever! These are just a few of the fascinating, fact-based predictions students have to offer, based upon their extensive, grass-roots, on-the-ground survey.
This is the year! With gasoline prices skyrocketing and free time at a premium, this is an ideal time to try holiday shopping on line. Consumers can find a wider variety of goods and sizes online than in most stores.
When it comes to Alzheimer's, you are not alone. That is the message the Alzheimer's Association is sending out to people with Alzheimer's, their families and caregivers in a nationwide campaign during National Alzheimer's Disease Month which is held in November and was established by former president Ronald Reagan in 1983.
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