A voluntary effort by the service of the U.S. food industry to reduce salt in processed food could have serious consequences for the health of the U.S. population, prevention of strokes and heart attacks in nearly a million Americans and saving 32.1 billion U.S. dollars in medical costs, according to a new study by researchers [...]

Atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, wreaking havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, three quarters maul them and becoming one of 10 women, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley biologists.
The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” due to their [...]

® Mimecast, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today announced the results of its Survey of Adoption of Cloud Computing, which examined the perception and adoption of cloud computing solutions among the 565 respondents responsible for managing their IT operations organization and budget through the U.S. and [...]

Intermedia, today opened its first factory service Hosted Exchange 2010 to its current and future partners. These managed service providers, value-added resellers and other technology vendors can sell and support Hosted Exchange 2010 under its own brand as members Intermedia Private Label Partner Program.
Intermedia launched the first service Hosted Exchange 2010 November 9 and is [...]

For the third quarter ended Sept. 30, managed hosting provider SingleHop (www.singlehop.com) generated revenues of 1.62 million U.S. dollars, representing an increase of 19.5 percent in the second quarter of this year, 119 percent over the same period last year.
According to the announcement last week SingleHop reported a rate of 6.9 million U.S. dollars of [...]

Operator of European data center EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) said Tuesday it has signed the Code of Conduct on the efficiency of data centers energy.
European data centers that have signed this agreement are obliged to reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020.
EvoSwitch says it “substantially exceeds” guidelines for energy conservation as outlined in the Code [...]

Investors willing to make bets in the early recovery of PC industry have made great with Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp. - two manufacturers of hard drives, which have seen their market values more than tripled so far this year.
When the year began, there was reason to believe that some of Seagate and Western [...]

Business services security firm MessageLabs (www.messagelabs.com) said Wednesday it has submitted a list of key U.S. states widespread, with Idaho leading the rest of the nation.
With 93.8 percent of spam, Idaho, well above the global spam rate for September 2009 of 86.4 percent, the company says.
Idaho has advanced 43 points since 2008, when it ranked [...]

Insulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes and a condition often associated with obesity, is, paradoxically, also contributes to muscle atrophy evident and severe weight loss that accompanies some cancers, according to a reinvestigation.
And in an animal study, a diabetes drug that promotes insulin sensitivity, slow the progression of muscle atrophy and loss of [...]

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental organisms found in water and soil that can cause severe pulmonary (lung) disease in humans. Pulmonary NTM is increasing in the United States, according to a large study of people hospitalized with the disease.
A research team led by epidemiologists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of [...]

Researchers at Drexel University are developing a new portable, low-cost radiation detector free of breast cancer that could potentially be used in the doctor’s office as first-line breast cancer detection.
Researchers at Drexel University are developing a new portable, low-cost radiation detector free of breast cancer that can be used in the doctor’s office as first [...]

A high-fructose diet increases blood pressure in men, while a drug used to treat gout appears to protect against increased blood pressure, according to research published on the 63rd of the American Heart Association High Blood Pressure Research Conference.
“This is the first evidence of a role of fructose in increasing blood pressure and a role [...]

Most medical schools surveyed report they have experienced incidents of students to publish professional content online, including incidents of violation of patient confidentiality, with few schools have policies to deal with these ads, as A study published in the September 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.
Internet applications around user-generated content, called [...]

Facebook, in a move aimed at boosting its appeal to advertisers with measurement company Nielsen on Tuesday to allow sellers to better gauge the performance of ads on social networking.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, announced the launch of the “multi-year strategic alliance” in an advertising conference in New York.
“Nielsen is the leader in measurement and is [...]