innovations-report http://www.innovations-report.com The Forum for Innovations, Science, Research, Industry and Business en Fast and effective testing for drugs of abuse: the Dräger DrugTest 5000 http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/fast_effective_testing_drugs_abuse_draeger_drugtest_122749.html [Medizintechnik] The Dräger DrugTest 5000 is capable of detecting even minute traces of addictive drugs in saliva within minutes. This means it can provide a quick check on whether a patient has consumed drugs of abus... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/fast_effective_testing_drugs_abuse_draeger_drugtest_122749.html en Seamless patient transport http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/seamless_patient_transport_122752.html [Medizintechnik] Both processes are simplified by the Pick and Go technology which is part of Dräger’s Infinity Delta monitor series. Everyone benefits – the patients, the clinic staff, and the hospital. Zürich Unive... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/seamless_patient_transport_122752.html en New ventilation component: Dräger expands the Infinity Acute Care System http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/ventilation_component_draeger_expands_infinity_acute_122750.html [Medizintechnik] This patient supply system aims to improve clinical processes and workflows by offering especially powerful individual components for patient monitoring, therapy and information management. T... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/ventilation_component_draeger_expands_infinity_acute_122750.html en Easy access to patient information http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/easy_access_patient_information_122753.html [Medizintechnik] Collecting, storing and documenting patient data electronically is a growing trend in today’s leading hospitals. Technologies that are essential to business communication are becoming common in health... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/easy_access_patient_information_122753.html en Holiday Travel: Thanksgiving Could be Worst Travel Day of the Year http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/holiday_travel_thanksgiving_worst_travel_day_year_122778.html [Studien Analysen] A recent University of Alabama study shows the fifth worst day for crashes within the state in 2007 was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. These results are in sharp contrast to UA’s CARE Research & ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/holiday_travel_thanksgiving_worst_travel_day_year_122778.html en Global Temperature Report - October 2008 http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/global_temperature_report_october_2008_122770.html [Geowissenschaften] Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeOctober temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.:+0.17 C (about 0.31° Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for October.... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/global_temperature_report_october_2008_122770.html en New Penguin Species Found in New Zealand http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/penguin_species_found_zealand_122771.html [Biowissenschaften Chemie] A team from the University of Adelaide, the University of Otago and Canterbury Museum in New Zealand, has identified a previously unknown penguin species while conducting research on New Zealand’s end... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/penguin_species_found_zealand_122771.html en Georgia Tech Announces Plans for New Manycore Computing Research Center http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/georgia_tech_announces_plans_manycore_computing_122777.html [Informationstechnologie] A collaborative effort between the Georgia Tech Colleges of Computing and Engineering, the Center for Manycore Computing (CMC) will address deep, foundational challenges in programming, design and sy... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/georgia_tech_announces_plans_manycore_computing_122777.html en National Survey Says Public Reveres Bison http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/national_survey_public_reveres_bison_122772.html [Ökologie Umwelt- Naturschutz] These sentiments were found in a public survey released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) at a national conference on restoring bison populations in the North America.The survey... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/national_survey_public_reveres_bison_122772.html en UMass Amherst Spinoff Raises $25 Million for Ethanol Breakthrough http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/umass_amherst_spinoff_raises_25_million_ethanol_122776.html [Energie und Elektrotechnik] Leading the Series B financing is new investor Venrock, along with previous investor Battery Ventures. Also participating in the Series B financing are Soros Fund Management LLC and BP, both new, and ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/umass_amherst_spinoff_raises_25_million_ethanol_122776.html en Black Holes Are the Rhythm at the Heart of Galaxies http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/black_holes_rhythm_heart_galaxies_122773.html [Physik Astronomie] Scientists from the University of Michigan, the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for As... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/black_holes_rhythm_heart_galaxies_122773.html en Space Waste: Handling Garbage When Your Dumpster Is 100 Million Miles Away? http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/space_waste_handling_garbage_dumpster_100_million_122775.html [Physik Astronomie] There has never been a good system for dealing with space waste - the space shuttle now brings full trash bags back to Earth; on the Russian space station MIR, junk would accumulate in hallways for mo... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/space_waste_handling_garbage_dumpster_100_million_122775.html en Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill for Part of Asia http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/missing_radioactivity_ice_cores_bodes_ill_part_asia_122774.html [Geowissenschaften] But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people living downstream of that vast mountain rang... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/missing_radioactivity_ice_cores_bodes_ill_part_asia_122774.html en Benefitting from Gentler Therapies and Diagnostics http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/benefitting_gentler_therapies_diagnostics_122751.html [Medizintechnik] If a patient is delivered to the clinic with pulmonary complications, the clinic has to decide which type of therapy is suitable. In addition to purely medical aspects other criteria also play an impo... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/benefitting_gentler_therapies_diagnostics_122751.html en International team discovers gene associated with epilepsy http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/international_team_discovers_gene_epilepsy_122742.html [Biowissenschaften Chemie] The findings, which involved nearly two dozen institutions from six different countries, appear in the Nov. 7 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.In epilepsy, nerve cells in the br... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/international_team_discovers_gene_epilepsy_122742.html en