News: Cha vs. Flamm court drama continues Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 06:21 PM GMT] A fertility researcher who published a study suggesting that prayer improves in vitro fertilization success rates has renewed his legal battle against an obstetrician/gynecologist who has criticized his work. Kwang-Yul Cha, a fertility researcher ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH grants for human microbe work Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th December 2007 07:46 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health launched a project today (Dec. 19) aimed at sequencing the myriad ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Open access lives in NIH bill Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 04:42 PM GMT] A provision mandating public access to research published by NIH-funded scientists has survived in the funding bill making its way through Congress this week. The provision was originally ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH scientist terrorized? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 14th December 2007 10:27 PM GMT] Last week the Animal Liberation Front targeted an obstetrician/gynecologist who is funded by the National Institutes of Health and uses non-human primates in his research. The Associated Press ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Canadian reactor to reopen Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 08:52 PM GMT] A shuttered Canadian nuclear reactor that normally produces radioisotopes crucial to a variety of medical diagnoses will reopen soon. Emergency legislation ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Calif. stem cell grants, conflicts Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 13th December 2007 03:36 PM GMT] The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced 22 New Faculty Awards yesterday (Dec 12) while releasing the names of five institutions from which applications were rejected for apparent conflicts of interest. The grants, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Isotope shortage slowing research? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 09:50 PM GMT] The shutdown of a Canadian nuclear reactor that produces radioisotopes is causing delays in medical diagnoses and treatments, but nuclear medicine researchers seem unaffected so far. In mid-November, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Calif. to investigate state stem cell agency Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 03:54 PM GMT] A California state political oversight commission has agreed to investigate a conflict of interest complaint filed against a board member at the state's stem cell agency. California's Fair Political Practices Commission said yesterday (Dec 10) that ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: CIRM cuts ten grants Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 7th December 2007 09:27 PM GMT] The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced today that it is eliminating ten grant applications from consideration to avoid breaking its conflict of interest rules ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Conflicts at Calif. stem cell agency Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 09:20 PM GMT] Advocacy groups are calling for resignations from the board chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and another CIRM board member in the wake of a violation of the institute's own conflict of interest rules. Meanwhile, ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH head fields grant questions Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 5th December 2007 12:45 AM GMT] NIH is nearing the end of a review of the peer review facet of their granting process, and this Friday (Dec. 7) NIH director Elias Zerhouni will ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: CSPI: FDA can manage conflicts better Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 09:00 PM GMT] Conflicts of interest among US Food and Drug Administration advisory committees are more easily solved than the agency is letting on, suggests a Washington-based think tank. A ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: NIH: Gene therapy didn't cause death Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 04:58 PM GMT] An experimental gene therapy treatment did not cause a patient's death earlier this year, according to a federal advisory committee. The National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story

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