News: NIH funding increase stalled Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 26th June 2008 06:46 PM GMT] A spending bill that would increase the National Institutes of Health 2009 budget by $1.2 billion over President Bush's proposed NIH budget was sidelined by partisan wrangling in the full ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Conflict probe turns to Stanford Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th June 2008 09:03 PM GMT] The irascible conflict of interest hunter, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), has set his sights on a Stanford University psychiatrist who's running a federally funded clinical trial on a drug ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: UK to boost clinical trial participation Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th June 2008 05:02 PM GMT] The UK government will take steps to make sure patients are better informed of opportunities to participate in clinical trials, according to the country's health minister. Doctors in the UK "already have a duty to advise patients, in each patient's ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Science nabs lying fisherman Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 25th June 2008 02:51 PM GMT] A man attempting to cheat his way into a $500 prize for catching a hefty Chinook salmon was recently foiled by one of the most basic tenets of fisheries biology: if you know a fish's ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: UK psychiatrist suspended for plagiarism Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 23rd June 2008 06:37 PM GMT] One of Great Britain's most media savvy psychiatrists, who confessed to plagiarizing other authors in articles he wrote in newspapers and medical journals, has been suspended from practicing ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Anthony Pawson wins Kyoto Prize Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 20th June 2008 02:59 PM GMT] A microbiologist who changed science's understanding of cell signal transduction and protein structure has won the 2008 Kyoto ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Boost for NSF funding Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 19th June 2008 04:35 PM GMT] The US Senate and House of Representatives have approved a 14 percent funding increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) for 2009. A Senate appropriations subcommittee approved the measure yesterday (Jun 18), and a House subcommittee passed ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Revise HIPAA: Health researchers Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 17th June 2008 10:48 PM GMT] A rule meant to protect the privacy of medical patients impedes critical health research by limiting access to stored tissue and genetic datasets and by hampering research participant recruitment, according to an Association of Academic Health ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: $Billions of fraud in HHS programs Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 16th June 2008 04:24 PM GMT] The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) will recover more than $2 billion through audits and investigations of fraud, waste and abuse in HHS programs, the office ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems merge Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 12th June 2008 04:39 PM GMT] Biotech company Invitrogen announced today (Jun 12) that it will acquire Applied Biosystems in a deal valued at $6.7 ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Trees have internal thermostat Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th June 2008 08:48 PM GMT] Trees from the Caribbean to Canada maintain a constant leaf temperature regardless of the ambient air temperature, according to a ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: GSK slashes workforce Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 11th June 2008 06:57 PM GMT] In another move to encourage innovation while trimming its research and development budget, pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will cut two percent, or 350 jobs, from its global R&D staff, according to ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Fauci at the UN Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 10th June 2008 04:31 PM GMT] Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City today (Jun 10), telling ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Who's the greatest woman scientist? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 9th June 2008 05:24 PM GMT] Cosmetics company L'Oreal has launched a search for the most influential woman scientist of all time. The corporation, which for the past ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Cane toads wreaking more havoc Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 6th June 2008 06:30 PM GMT] More bad news from Australia's war on cane toads: Now they're killing freshwater crocs. According to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Med schools failing on conflicts? Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 4th June 2008 05:15 PM GMT] A new report from the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) paints a gloomy picture of how US medical schools are failing to craft policies that keep the pharmaceutical industry at arm's length. The AMSA's ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: AIDS vaccine trial set to start Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 3rd June 2008 04:34 PM GMT] The US government is poised to start a new AIDS vaccine trial, prompting some to caution that it is too soon to initiate such studies after a Merck vaccine not only failed to show ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: Evolution loves history Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd June 2008 11:23 PM GMT] In order to evolve novel traits, organisms may depend upon smaller, less dramatic mutations that they amass through their evolutionary history rather than suddenly acquiring a single mutation ... Click to continue View comments (5) | Comment on this news story News: New journal links to genetic database Posted by Bob Grant [Entry posted at 2nd June 2008 03:22 PM GMT] A new genomics and systems biology journal will collaborate with an international, open access database to include a section devoted to publishing genetic datasets. ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story

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