News: [Entry posted at 27th October 2009 03:13 PM GMT] Historically short-shrifted by federal funding bodies, academic agricultural research was recently promised redemption: a federal funding agency of its very own that will award competitive grants in a fashion similar to the National Institutes of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 22nd October 2009 04:30 PM GMT] Elizabeth Nabel, the director of the National Institutes of Health's National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will be leaving her post on January 1, 2010 to take a position as president and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th October 2009 03:48 PM GMT] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a vocal consumer advocate to its policy team.
Peter Lurie, former director of the health research group at Washington, DC-based watchdog group Public Citizen, will be serving in the Office of ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 19th October 2009 03:33 PM GMT] University College London (UCL), which last year announced plans to award unorthodox research grants without robust peer review, deadlines, directives, or milestones, has ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 16th October 2009 02:29 PM GMT] Publisher, author, photographer, and civil rights advocate Theodore Cross spent a decade traversing the globe, from the waterways of the Arctic Circle to sun-drenched South Pacific ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th October 2009 04:56 PM GMT] Editors at leading medical journals have agreed to adopt a new standard conflict of interest disclosure form that probes deep into the financial and nonfinancial interests of published authors. The Lancet, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th October 2009 10:11 PM GMT] New findings may help ecologists understand the spread of a deadly fungus decimating amphibian populations worldwide.
A group of fungi called chytrids, which includes a frog-killing pathogen, dominates soil communities in otherwise relatively ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th October 2009 11:36 AM GMT] Ruth Kirschstein, a trusted advisor and long-time administrator at the National Institutes of Health who helped develop and refine safety tests of viral vaccines for diseases such as rubella, measles, and polio, died last night (Oct. 6) after ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 8th October 2009 11:21 AM GMT] A bill designed to make scientific research funded by the US government's 11 largest funding bodies accessible for free by the general public is hibernating in the US legislature, awaiting some resolution in the heated health care reform debate ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 1st October 2009 06:51 PM GMT] The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has halted the print publication of a controversial scientific paper, saying it's investigating the conditions under which it was ushered through peer review by a distinguished academy member ... Click to continue
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