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March 11, 2009 8:11 PM
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Reports: Margaret Hamburg to Head FDA
The Obama Administration has chosen a new chief to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to media reports. She’s Margaret Hamburg, 53, the New York City health...
March 11, 2009 4:48 PM
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Reporters Ask for Direct Access to Federal Scientists
Journalists like to go straight to the source, and a group of reporters who cover health care say a change in federal policies will help them do their jobs better....
March 10, 2009 12:23 PM
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Animal-Rights Extremists Target UCLA Neuroscientist
Animal-rights extremists aren't letting up in their attacks on California biomedical researchers. According to the Los Angeles Times, the FBI is investigating a firebombing that destroyed the car of a...
March 9, 2009 1:38 PM
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Obama's Stem Cell Decision Gets Standing Ovation From Scientists
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In the same chandeliered White House room where, 2 years ago, George W. Bush reaffirmed federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, President Barack Obama announced this morning that...
March 9, 2009 1:22 PM
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Full Text of Obama's Stem Cell and Scientific Integrity Decisions
ScienceInsider has obtained the text of an executive order and a memorandum signed by President Barack Obama this morning. The first deals with overturning former president George W. Bush's restrictions...
March 9, 2009 10:59 AM
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Stem Cell Decision Roundup
(Update: President Obama has signed an executive order lifting federal restrictions on stem cell funding) The Washington Post has a good primer on the politics of the stem cells, and...
March 6, 2009 4:56 PM
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Stem Cell Funding Ban Reportedly Gone
The Washington Post says Obama will do it Monday....
March 5, 2009 11:47 AM
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A New Regulatory Lid on Tobacco?
If U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D–CA) has his way, the Food and Drug Administration will soon gain the ability to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products in addition to the...
March 4, 2009 4:44 PM
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University of Louisiana, NIH, Face Primate Violations Allegations
Note: This item has been updated An undercover investigation of the New Iberia Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, has led the Humane Society of the United States to allege that...
March 3, 2009 9:50 AM
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Harold Varmus on Daily Show
Who says being co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is a low-profile job? .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;} The Daily Show With...
March 2, 2009 2:34 PM
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Kim to Helm Dartmouth
Dartmouth has tapped Jim Yong Kim, a leader in global health, to become its next president. Kim, 49, currently heads the department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard...
March 2, 2009 12:37 PM
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Obama Picks Sebelius for HHS
President Barack Obama is expected to announce today that he has nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The response to her nomination,...
February 27, 2009 12:15 PM
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White House Requests New Funding for Autism
Autism research will get a funding boost if U.S. President Barack Obama has his way. In his budget overview released yesterday, Obama requested $211 million as part of the Department...
February 26, 2009 11:36 AM
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AIDS Czar Named
President Barack Obama today tapped Jeffrey Crowley to fill the top slot in the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP)....
February 25, 2009 2:48 PM
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And Win the War on Cancer, Too
In addition to saving the banks, shoring up the cratered real estate market, and capping greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama had another ambitious goal for the stimulus package in...
February 25, 2009 2:06 PM
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Obama vs. Bush: Yes, Climate Change Is Unhealthy
Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today about the impacts of climate change on health. You...
February 24, 2009 11:39 AM
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Journal Latest to Confront Conflicts of Interest
Journal editors are always keen to ask authors to disclose individual contributions to papers and potential conflicts of interest. Today, the editors of PLoS Medicine published an editorial calling for...
February 23, 2009 4:26 PM
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Four Charged in Animal-Rights Incidents
On Friday, the FBI announced that it had arrested four animal-rights extremists suspected of harassing researchers who work at University of California (UC) campuses in Berkeley and Santa Cruz. The...
February 18, 2009 4:55 PM
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NIH Grant Pipeline Now Flush With $timulus
The National Institutes of Health will dedicate most of its $8.2 billion for research from the economic stimulus bill to funding grant applications it has already received and to supplementing...
February 18, 2009 4:45 PM
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Science Hero Specter Talks
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA—Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), fresh off earning the distinction of being one of just three Republicans to vote for the Obama Administration’s economic stimulus plan and savoring a successful...
February 13, 2009 2:41 PM
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$10,000,000,000.00 for the National Institutes of Health
In the economic stimulus package, the biggest winner among U.S. science agencies is probably the National Institutes of Health, which will receive $8.2 billion for research. Another $500 million will...
February 9, 2009 2:38 PM
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Japanese Cancer Scientists Plan Asia-Pacific Research Network
TOKYO—International health organizations have long recognized the devastating impact of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis on developing countries. Now researchers are also sounding an alarm about the...
February 9, 2009 10:20 AM
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Obama's Promise on Stem Cells: Unfulfilled
Stem cell researchers are getting restive. Many scientists fully expected that President Barack Obama would sign an executive order reversing the Bush Administration's stem cell policy the minute he took...
February 6, 2009 1:42 PM
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Proposed Law Would Make NIH Less "Open"
A controversial bill about open-access is back on the congressional agenda. The bill would undermine the U.S. National Institutes of Health's requirement that its grantees provide NIH with a...
February 4, 2009 10:35 AM
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Billions in Biomed Boosts?
Biomedical research may be headed for a big 2-year boost in the stimulus bill—more than even some lobbyists expected. In debate last night, the Senate agreed by voice vote to...
February 3, 2009 5:01 PM
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Next Chapter for Zerhouni
Elias Zerhouni, the radiologist-researcher who ran the U.S. National Institutes of Health for 6 years until he stepped down in October, is joining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as...
February 3, 2009 1:33 PM
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Harvard Med Is Cracking the Whip
As Massachusetts General Hospital and the U.S. Senate investigate conflict-of-interest allegations, Harvard Medical School has named a committee to review its rules governing the conflicts. From The Boston Globe: US...
February 2, 2009 3:26 PM
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Obama Targets FDA
It's expected that the Obama Administration will nominate one of several big critics of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run the beleaguered agency. Yesterday, the president signaled in...
January 30, 2009 12:19 PM
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Global Health at a Discount
Seven so-called neglected diseases just became a little less neglected. This morning, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new $34 million grant in support of a global network...
January 29, 2009 3:27 PM
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Canadian Genomicists Lament Cuts
Researchers funded by Genome Canada, Canada’s preeminent funding body for large-scale genomics and proteomics research, are reacting with shock to news that the Canadian government is withdrawing funding from the...
January 26, 2009 2:30 PM
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Update: Ebola-Reston Virus Jumped From Pigs to At Least One Human
The Ebola-Reston virus, recently found for the first time in pigs in the Philippines, has now been confirmed to have infected at least one human. Scientists are relieved because the...
January 16, 2009 3:18 PM
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Obama Will Unveil His Stem Cell Policy. Boosters Debate the Choreography
Stem cell supporters are in a frenzy over the coming change in presidential policy and have been holding press conferences abrim with enthusiasm, if not content. But at a meeting...
January 13, 2009 3:57 PM
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Britain OKs Hybrids, Won't Fund Them
The stem cell community is stirred up with the news that after all the trouble U.K. scientists went to to persuade the government to let them make "hybrid" embryos, they...
January 8, 2009 5:48 PM
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Angst and Embarrassment, FDA Style
Looks like some scientists at the Food and Drug Administration are doing what they can to influence President-elect Barack Obama's choice of their new boss. Nine scientists have written...
January 6, 2009 5:12 PM
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And They Say Jobs for Journalists Are Scarce These Days
The Obama White House has reportedly signed up a nominee for surgeon general—CNN commentator and celebrity doc Sanjay Gupta, according to the Washington Post. Gupta, who has not commented...
January 2, 2009 3:04 PM
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Collins Dominates Rumor Mill for NIH Director
Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, appears to be the top contender for the post as President-elect Barack Obama's director of the...
December 22, 2008 5:18 PM
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More Scientific Fallout From Madoff Scandal
The Picower Foundation is the latest U.S. charity to be sunk by Bernard Madoff and his self-admitted $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Researchers are reeling from the blow to the foundation,...
December 19, 2008 2:40 PM
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Google to Close Science Data Archive
In the last 2 years Google and its nonprofit spinoff have launched a variety of science projects in areas ranging from astronomy education to lunar exploration to making electric car...
December 17, 2008 10:42 AM
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Kaiser Permanente Cashes In on Biobank Plans
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has finally landed the money it needed to fulfill plans for a massive DNA biobank. It has just announced receiving an $8.6 million grant from...
December 16, 2008 3:03 PM
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The Madoff Scandal's Impact on Science
The Science Careers Blog has a nice summary of what we know so far about the impact of the Bernard Madoff scandal on scientific institutions and philanthropies that donate to...
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