Police search Merck KGaA's French plant in thyroid pill inquiry
LYON, France (Reuters) - French police searched German drugmaker Merck KGaA's plant in Lyon on Tuesday as part of an investigation into complaints by patients about changes to its thyroid drug Levothyrox, a company spokeswoman said.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Police search Merck's French plant in thyroid pill inquiry
LYON, France (Reuters) - French police searched German drugmaker Merck's plant in Lyon on Tuesday as part of an investigation into complaints by patients about changes to its thyroid drug Levothyrox, a company spokeswoman said.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

The 7 Countries Anthony Bourdain Has Visited Most
This article originally appeared on FoodandWine.com
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Max Bonem / Food and Wine Tags: Uncategorized onetime onetimetravel Source Type: news

Stanford, MIT and Harvard top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities
Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world’s most innovative universities. The Reuters Top 100 aims to identify and rank the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and power new markets and industries. Compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, the ranking is based on proprietary data and analysis of numerous indicators including patent filings and research paper citations. The most innovative university in the world, for the third consecutive year, is Stanford Universi...
Source: News from STM - September 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news

Use of psychoactive substances in prison: results of a study in the Lyon-Corbas prison, France - Sahajian F, Berger-Vergiat A, Pot E.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In prison, in 2012, according to various sources, from 4 to 56% of the European inmate population used psychoactive substances (PAS). The aim of our study was to describe PAS consumption during incarceration in the prison of Lyon-Corba...
Source: SafetyLit - September 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

‘Abducted, Raped and Burned Up.’ Former Traveling Carnival Worker Pleads Guilty to Killing Young Sisters in 1975
(BEDFORD, Va.) — A man charged in the killing of two young sisters from Maryland pleaded guilty Tuesday, more than four decades after the girls vanished during a trip to a local shopping mall. Lloyd Lee Welch Jr., 60, entered his plea in a Virginia court Tuesday. Welch is accused of snatching 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and 10-year-old Katherine Lyon in March 1975. Authorities believe he burned the girls’ bodies on a remote mountain in Bedford County, Virginia, where his family owned land. They were never recovered. The first-degree felony murder charges carry the possibility of a death sentence, but it wasn’...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized APW Crime onetime Source Type: news

Italvacuum to Participate at CHEMIE LYON
Italvacuum has announced it is participating at CHEMIE LYON, a French event for the chemicals processing industry.
Source: Pharmaceutical Technology - September 10, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Ask versus tell: potential confusion when child witnesses are questioned about conversations - Stolzenberg SN, McWilliams K, Lyon TD.
Children's potential confusion between "ask" and "tell" can lead to misunderstandings when child witnesses are asked to report prior conversations. The verbs distinguish both between interrogating and informing, and between requesting and commanding. Child...
Source: SafetyLit - August 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Natural hazard susceptibility assessment for road planning using spatial multi-criteria analysis - Karlsson CSJ, Kalantari Z, M örtberg U, Olofsson B, Lyon SW.
Inadequate infrastructural networks can be detrimental to society if transport between locations becomes hindered or delayed, especially due to natural hazards which are difficult to control. Thus determining natural hazard susceptible areas and incorporat...
Source: SafetyLit - August 23, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Optimism and hope after multiple disasters: relationships to health-related quality of life - Cherry KE, Sampson L, Galea S, Marks LD, Nezat PF, Baudoin KH, Lyon BA.
Natural and technological disasters are devastating events for individuals and communities. The authors examined the role of optimism and hope in predicting health indicators in a sample of disaster survivors who were exposed to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Implementing the teen marijuana check-up in schools-a study protocol - Hartzler B, Lyon AR, Walker DD, Matthews L, King KM, McCollister KE.
BACKGROUND: Substance misuse is now encountered in settings beyond addiction specialty care, with schools a point-of-contact for student access to behavioral health services. Marijuana is a leading impetus for adolescent treatment admissions despite declin...
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Wrongful acquittals of sexual abuse - Lyon TD, Stolzenberg SN, McWilliams K.
Ross Cheit's book The Witch-Hunt Narrative highlights the difficulties of prosecuting child sexual abuse. Drawing examples from a single case, Alex A., we examine the ways in which false acquittals of sexual abuse are likely to occur. First, prosecutors te...
Source: SafetyLit - August 7, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

2017 Health Care Heroes: Molly Lyon, Heartspring
'Health Care Innovations' category winner.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - August 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: news

Lab notes: doyouthinkhesaurus? A great week for dinosaur camouflage jokes
Genome editing has taken another giant leap forward: a groundbreaking project has managed tocorrect faulty DNA in human embryos that is linked to a fatal heart condition. It raises hopes for parents who risk passing on genetic diseases, although there ’s obviously still a long way to go technically and ethically before this becomes clinically available. There might also be some extraordinarily good news for those living with Parkinson’s disease. It looks like adrug currently used to treat diabetes improves movement-related issues and might also slow the progression of the disease. Now, that ’s exciting, but this is m...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 4, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Tash Reith-Banks Tags: Science Source Type: news

France: archaeologists uncover 'little Pompeii' south of Lyon
Site unearthed on land awaiting construction of housing complex is labelled an ‘exceptional find’ by culture ministryA “little Pompeii” is how French archaeologists are describing an entire ancient Roman neighbourhood uncovered on the outskirts of the southeastern city of Vienne, featuring remarkably preserved remains of luxury homes and public buildings.“We’re unbelievably lucky. This is undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years,” said Benjamin Clement, the archaeologist leading the dig on the banks of the Rhone river, about 18 miles (30km) south of Lyon.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Agence France-Presse Tags: France Archaeology Europe World news Science Source Type: news

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