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  Poll Reveals Public Awareness of Nanotech Stuck at Low Level 

  http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-25-2007/0004668999&EDATE=

  Americans Look to Government to Ensure Safety of New Technology WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National survey findings released today indicate that Americans' awareness of nanotechnology ... remains low. Popular awareness is nearly as small as the tiny nanoscale materials and nano-enabled devices and products now flowing onto the market from this rapidly progressing technology that experts believe will usher in a new industrial revolution. The poll also finds that most Americans continue to prefer that government, not industry, oversee and manage risks associated with advances in new areas of science and technology like nanotech, even though public confidence in U.S. regulatory agencies overall is declining. The poll, a follow up to a similar poll conducted last year, surveyed 1,014 U.S. adults by telephone on August 27-28. It, as well as the prior poll, was commissioned by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies ( http://www.nanotechproject.org ) at the Woodrow Wilson I   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  nanoscience, nanotechnology, public awareness

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  Health World Web 2.0 unveiled 

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  Health World Web is a social networking tool that allows users to meet other patients with similar problems, interests or goals in local neighborhoods and throughout the world by joining communities or ... forming direct connections. (I-Newswire) - JACKSONVILLE, Florida -- Health World Web relaunches today as a social networking site, a virtual meeting place for healthcare consumers. One of the most noticeable features is the Community Empowered Search Engine, where the website users can find Providers recommended by one or more communities. But there s so much more. Now Health World Web users can: Create an extensive and detailed profile that will enable them to find people just like them and to find the community that best suits their needs. Create their own communities to include anyone they want. They can reach out to people by gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, geographic location whatever their preference. Write reviews about healthcare providers and share their opi   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 26 September 2007, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  health, web 2.0, nanoscience, nanotechnology, public awareness