News: Science and Ethics at NIH--and FDA Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 29th August 2005 03:34 PM GMT] Many of the headlines suggested that the proposed ethics rules for NIH employees have been relaxed. But that's not quite true, as Ted Agres pointed out here. The rules on stock ownership have loosened, yes. But the most important restriction ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Phi Zappa Quakka Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 24th August 2005 06:11 PM GMT] It?s nice to see a Frank Zappa fan working in the Nature press office. A recent release extolling the current issue?s report on space dust from meteorites was titled: ?Who you jivin? with that cosmik debris?? The line is pulled from a 1974 classic ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Legionnaires hits close to home Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 12th August 2005 09:47 PM GMT] Two cases of Legionnaire?s disease were confirmed the other day; the irresistible hook being that the men, ages 60 and 70 were Legionnaires. They came down with flu-like symptoms shortly after attending a meeting of the American Legions in King of ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Genomes galore Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 11th August 2005 06:54 PM GMT] I see that the $1000 genome is now an official US government project. NIH's genome institute (NHGRI) just announced this genetic equivalent of going to the moon. The agency is spending $32 million to develop technology aimed explicitly at ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Profiting from insider clinical data Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 8th August 2005 04:38 PM GMT] The Seattle Times ran a great package of stories yesterday that resulted from an investigation into how hedge funds obtain their cutting-edge information on clinical trials. The investigation found ?at least 26 cases in which doctors have leaked ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: What did the President say? It's a fund-amental question. Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 3rd August 2005 07:51 PM GMT] So did President Bush really advocate teaching "intelligent design" in his interview with Texas reporters the other day? Or were his musings about exposing students to different ideas simply a better-than-average example of political weasel-speak? ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Ivory-billed woodpecker spotted; plays tennis Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 3rd August 2005 07:33 PM GMT] Well, it now appears that the ivory-billed woodpecker does exist. The three skeptics who had questioned the evidence presented in a Science paper that the birds were living in an Arkansas swamp now say they are ?strongly convinced that there is at ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Gorilla Marketing Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 1st August 2005 05:22 PM GMT] This morning, fellow editor Jeff Perkel, and I ran into a hairy ape and a healthy dose of irony. A man wearing a gorilla mask and a dark grey suit passed just in front of our office. The monkey-man?s unmasked companion was wearing a yellow t-shirt ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

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