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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE cuts and bruises from angry patients are nothing new to nurses, there are growing concerns that there is a link between physical assaults and long-term musculoskeletal symptoms.

The mental and emotional consequences of nursing violence have been on the radar of health institutions for a long time, but a recent study published in the UK-based international academic journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine is the first to make the connection between physical violence and chronic health problems.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

As governments wake up to the need of establishing an infrastructure of charging points for electric vehicles (EVs), commercial players are offering anything from the expertise to set up the network down to the individual chargers. Some innovations will clearly make life a lot easier for those with the job of making the EV marketable.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

A ROW has erupted between Sierra Mineral Holdings I Ltd (SML), a Vimetco NV subsidiary currently mining a vast bauxite deposit in Sierra Leone, and the government department with monitors it. In an interview in Freetown with Metal Bulletin, the Sierra Leone government complained about Vimetco’s perceived lack of commitment to community development – it is a claim that the company has strongly denied.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN AMERICAN company offering high-tech navigation services providing real-time advice on avoiding congestion, has branded London as Europe’s second largest traffic jams. Only Paris has more congestion, says USA-based Inrix Inc. It has collated data from drivers using its systems to create, it says, more comprehensive traffic information than available from traditional road sensors and sample surveys.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

AS the market for electric vehicles (EVs) picks up, the infrastructure for recharging them will inevitably have to keep pace – so, according to US-based consultants in global clean technology markets Pike Research (NOTE: CORRECT), there will be around 4.7 million EV charging units operating worldwide by 2015.…

BY MARK GODFREY

SUSTAINED economic growth and soaring passenger numbers are both reasons why Beijing is building a long-mooted second airport for commercial and cargo use. Digging into a US dollar USD$400 billion national fund for infrastructure, the Chinese capital is opening a new airport to cope with expected overcrowding at the city’s Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), which added its celebrated dragon-styled Terminal Three only two years ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW approach to developing asthma medication has been identified by a European Union (EU)-funded research project: target the condition’s genetic root causes, not just allergies prompting symptoms. The Euro 11 million GABRIEL project, Professor Miriam Moffatt, of Imperial College London, told a European Commission briefing note, means "we now know that allergies may develop as a result of defects of the lining of the airways in asthma," so "concentrating therapies only on allergy will not effectively treat the whole disease."…

BY ALAN OSBORN

EUROPEAN booksellers and publishers have welcomed the decision by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to approve legislation improving access to orphan works, whose copyright holders cannot be found. By encouraging their digitisation, the move will potentially open up vast swathes of books to libraries, museums and similar non-commercial organisations across Europe.…

BY EMMA JACKSON, MAGGIE DESCHAMPS

THERE are many good reasons for fleets to use natural gas powered vans running on compressed or liquefied natural gas (CNG/LNG). However, so far, British fleets have yet to be convinced and the market is tiny.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded scientists have debunked assumptions that by promoting production of a protein called sirtuin, anti-ageing creams can keep skin looking young, fresh and wrinkle-free. Personal care product companies have claimed that sirtuin is activated by the plant-based drug resveratrol.…