The Dana Foundation released Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain, its newest free education resource. The book, the culmination of a summit sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s Neuro-Education Initiative, focuses on the convergence of neuroscientific research and teaching and learning, with an emphasis on the arts.

The Excellence in Oncology Awards (EinO) 2009 are now open for entry. The Awards, now in their fourth year, recognise and reward best practice in oncology management, education and patient care throughout the UK. Winners will be announced at a prestigious dinner on 6 October 2009 during the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference.

Siemens Hearing Instruments has kicked off its new education initiative during Deaf Awareness Week with a visit by its hearing ambassador Kellie Moody to a Birmingham based deaf school. The visit and the launch of an education focused website ties into this year’s Deaf Awareness theme of ‘look at me’.

November is American Diabetes Month, an important time to take a look at the concerns – and some good news – about diabetes. The burden of diabetes in Montana is substantial: Almost 48,000 adults (6.4 percent of residents) have diagnosed diabetes, a rate that has more than doubled in the past 20 years. The rate [...]

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has joined forces with the nation’s leading cancer advocacy groups in a landmark television event and education initiative, Frosted Pink with a Twist, dedicated to raising awareness of cancers primarily affecting women. Today, one in three women in the US will develop cancer in her lifetime. The [...]