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News Releases

Military Personnel with Traumatic Brain Injury at Risk for Serious Long-Term Health Problems; More Studies Needed on Health Effects of Blast Injuries (12/4/08, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); read full report Gulf War and Health, Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury

U.S. EPA's Risk Assessment Process Bogged Down by Unprecedented Challenges; Expansion of Current Model Could Help Meet Needs (12/3/08, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); read report in brief (PDF version), executive summary (PDF version), and full report Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment

Linda S. Birnbaum Named New Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (12/3/08, National Institutes of Health)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Teams with WebMD for New Online Consumer Health Information - New Partnership to Inform and Educate Tens of Millions of Americans (12/3/08, FDA)

New Report Recommends Strategies to Reduce Medical Resident Fatigue-related Errors and Improve Training (12/2/08, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

New in RiskWorld

Citicus ONE risk management software is a web-based tool for managing information risk and other aspects of operational risk enterprise-wide. The current version—Release 3—enables risk practitioners to measure and aggregate the risks posed by business applications, IT infrastructure, sites, suppliers, and projects in a consistent and objective way. Read more. (posted 11/25/08)

Leveraging the Economics of Corporate Credit Cards, an article by Oversight Systems that will particularly interest P-Card program managers, explores challenges and best-practices for harnessing corporate card buying power, while ensuring adherence to policies and detecting misuse and fraud. The company will request readers to register before downloading this article and other white papers from http://www.oversightsystems.com/resources_whitepapers.php. (posted 10/28/08)

Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty, a collection of revised and updated articles by Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, examines the rationality of individuals from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Read more. (posted 10/1/08)

Job Openings

Syracuse Research Corporation has openings for a Postdoctoral Toxicologist in Syracuse, New York, and for a Principal Scientist and a Senior Program Manager in Denver, Colorado. Click here for links to more information. Click here for details on posting job openings in RiskWorld.

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