You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report in the online edition of the journal Science.

Have you ever wondered what the chances are that you may die in the next year? Would it be from illness or an accident? Is it something you can control? Or is it completely out of your hands?
A new Web site, http://www.DeathRiskRankings.com, developed by researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University, allows users to query [...]

King’s Patient Safety & Service Quality Research Centre (King’s PSSQ) is taking the lead on a major new international research project on quality and safety in European hospitals. A grant of 3 million Euros has been secured for the work (subject to contract), which will also involve the PSSQ Research Centre at Imperial College and [...]

The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) will hold its annual meeting, May 27-29, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20001. The featured stories are:

Low-Income Mothers & Pregnancy: How Prevention Science Influenced President Obama’s Budget? May 28, 2009, Hyatt Regency.
African-Americans Adults: Taking up Heroin after 32. May 29 [...]

The way that mothers talk to their children when they are young has a lasting effect on children’s social skills, according to a research study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The researchers found that children whose mothers often talked to them about people’s feelings, beliefs, wants, and intentions, developed better social understanding [...]