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[Entry posted at 29th February 2008 06:28 PM GMT]
Developing policies on conflicts regarding financial interests held by US medical colleges, teaching hospitals and research institutions has proven a much thornier task than targeting conflicts among individual faculty members.
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[Entry posted at 28th February 2008 09:07 PM GMT]
Two national academic associations have called on US academic institutions to develop and implement rules that manage institution-wide conflicts of interest and refine rules that deal with conflicts among faculty of medical schools, teaching ... Click to continue
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In the first ever functional imaging study of the communicating chimpanzee brain, researchers have found that brain function in grunting and gesturing chimpanzees closely parallels that in actively communicating humans, according to a ... Click to continue
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The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) cancer researcher whose home was invaded last Sunday, has commented on the attack to the ... Click to continue
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Attackers broke into the home of a University of California, Santa Cruz scientist who uses animals to study breast cancer and neurological disorders, on Sunday (Feb. 24), according to the ... Click to continue
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Almost one year after the Encyclopedia of Life announced its plan to construct a comprehensive, online catalog of biodiversity, the website will unveil its first 30,000 species pages tomorrow (Feb. 26).
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For 25 years, a university town in Illinois has become insect central for day thanks to entomologist May Berenbaum's Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois at ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st February 2008 05:37 PM GMT]
Science and medical publishing giant Reed Elsevier has announced that is putting Reed Business Information (RBI), the largest business-to-business publisher in the US, up on the auction block. ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 21st February 2008 04:09 PM GMT]
In response to several recent attacks on University of California, Los Angeles researchers, the school is suing three animal rights groups and several people associated with the ... Click to continue
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A South Korean biotech company has announced it will, for the first time ever, commercially clone a pet dog, according to reports coming out of the country.
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A team of Japanese researchers has changed epithelial cells from the livers and stomachs of adult mice into pluripotent cells that resemble embryonic stem cells, according to a paper in ... Click to continue
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[Entry posted at 12th February 2008 11:02 PM GMT]
Most US medical schools excel at keeping an eye on conflicts of interest among their faculty. But they're not so good at keeping an eye on themselves, according to a study out today.
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) director David Schwartz, who officially resigned from the agency last Friday, told The Scientist that NIEHS "could do better" ... Click to continue
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After a tumultuous three-year stint, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) director David Schwartz officially stepped down on Friday (Feb. 8).
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[Entry posted at 6th February 2008 07:54 PM GMT]
The Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest independent funder of biomedical research, announced yesterday (Feb 5) that it will increase its spending from about £2.5 billion (roughly 4.9 billion ... Click to continue
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A fire was set at the home of a University of California, Los Angeles, neuroscientist targeted by animal rights activists in the past.
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[Entry posted at 4th February 2008 08:56 PM GMT]
In his FY 2009 budget, released this morning, President George W. Bush calls to freeze the National Institutes of Health's budget at ... Click to continue
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The editor of The Lancet has banned members of international aid group Doctors Without Borders (Medicins sans Frontieres or MSF in French) from publishing articles in the journal, according to a ... Click to continue
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I've been looking into how global health programs evaluate the effects of their interventions for a story that will appear in our March issue. Public health experts have told me again and again that too little attention has been paid to evaluation ... Click to continue
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