Louisiana Falls Short on Policies to Prevent and Fight Cancer

BATON ROUGE, La. - According to a new report, Louisiana falls short on its legislative efforts to combat cancer. How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality evaluates each state's legislative activity on six issues key to winning the fight against cancer. Developed by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN ...

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Meredith Reports Strong Fiscal 2010 Fourth Quarter & Full Year Results

Meredith Corporation , the leading media and marketing company serving American women, today reported fiscal 2010 fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.73, compared to a loss of $3.64 per share in the prior year, which included a non-cash impairment charge of $4.11 per share. Â Excluding the impairment charge and other special items in both periods, fiscal 2010 fourth quarter earnings per ...

New Approach to Cyber Security: NYU-Poly Educates Engineers to Think Like Policy Makers and Psychologists to Protect ...

NEW YORK, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will launch an innovative graduate program to educate scientists and engineers to address the increasingly complex issues surrounding information security and privacy. A $2.85 million award from the National Science Foundation's flagship interdisciplinary training initiative, Integrated Graduate ...