The report by a working group of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director considered the future of the nation’s biomedical research workforce. The goal of the study was to ensure “future US competitiveness and innovation in biomedical research by creating pathways through undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral training” that attract and retain the best scientists and prepare...
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Want to get teens interested in math and science? Target their parents :: (Association for Psychological Science) Increasing the number of students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math - the STEM disciplines - is vital to national competitiveness in the global economy and to the development of a strong workforce. But the pipeline leading toward STEM careers begins leaking in high school, when students choose not to take advanced STEM courses. Now a new study goes beyond the classroom to examine the unique role that parents can play in promoting students' STEM motivation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Investing in our future: White House honors Dr. T. Berry Brazelton :: Investing in our future means investing in our children.
That's the message that Boston Children's renowned pediatrician T.Berry Brazelton wants everyone to hear, loud and clear.
Brazelton was one of 11 individuals from Head Start programs around the country who was honored by the White House on June 18th as a "Champion of Change." The Champions of Change program is part of President Obama's Winning the Future Initiative. If anyone has spent his life thinking about our future, it's Brazelton.
Along with guiding millions of parents in raising their children, Brazelton collaborated with Ed Zigler and Julius Richmond to create Head Start, a comprehensive early education program for low-income children that, as he says, gives "every child a chance to make the American dream come ...
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UK inflation rate falls to 2.4% :: Prices in the UK are rising at their slowest rate since the end of 2009, official figures have shown, due to falling food, fuel and clothing prices.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18867248#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Yahoo poaches Google exec as CEO :: Technology firm Yahoo announces the appointment of Google executive Marissa Mayer as its third CEO in the space of a year.
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Olympic security boss to face MPs :: The G4S chief executive will go before a committee of MPs later to explain why his firm said it would not be able to provide the Olympic security staff it had promised.
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How UPS handles Olympic size logistics :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/gXEt2IRkpRE/
Will name change help site? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XUPeiD5kejs/index.html
Olympics security boss faces grilling :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/SJfoaYepfkE/index.html
VIDEO: Bank scandal crosses the Atlantic :: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver his "Monetary Policy Report to Congress" on Tuesday.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18867356#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
VIDEO: Yahoo appoints Google exec as new CEO :: Technology firm Yahoo has appointed leading Google executive Marissa Mayer as its next chief executive.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18867639#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
House prices 'unchanged in May' :: House prices were unchanged on average across the UK in May at £228,000, according to the Office for National Statistics
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HSBC 'allowed money laundering' :: A US Senate probe discloses how lax controls at Europe's largest bank left it vulnerable to being used to launder dirty money from around the world.
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UK Inflation Slows to 2.4% in June: ONS :: UK inflation has fallen to its lowest reading since November 2009, loosening its grip on consumers' hard pressed finances.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363782/20120717/uk-inflation-june-recession-qe-ons.htm
AUDIO: Are Olympic branding rules too tight? :: Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti says there needs to be some proportionality in the way the law is enforced. But former sports minister Richard Caborn believes the rules are working well.
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Dairy Crest sees sales rise 15% :: Dairy Crest, one of the UK's largest dairy processors, reports a 15 % rise in first quarter sales, despite "challenging" trading conditions.
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HSBC: US Senate Details Ties to Drugs, Iran, Terror in Sweeping Report :: Lead Senate investigator says HSBC's US charter at risk after damning 335 page report
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363770/20120717/hsbc-money-laundering-drugs-terrorism-iran-saudi.htm
HSBC Handled Dirty Money from Drug Cartels and Potential Terrorists - Report :: Senior HSBC executives will appear before the US Senate on Tuesday, in response to a report claiming that lax monitoring exposed to the bank to money laundering
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363767/20120717/hsbc-money-laundering-occ-carl-levin-mexico.htm
China Consolidates Rare Earths Sector, Cuts in Half Approval and Release of Mining Rights :: China, in yet another endeavor to loop-thread and consolidate its patchy rare earths mining sector, has decreased in half the approval and release of mining rights it can award to producers and mining firms.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363757/20120717/china-rare-earths-manufacturing.htm
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