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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Cloud storage startup Egnyte nets $16M to boost brand :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/bV9Naek9qrc/
Olympics G4S boss 'right for job' :: G4S chief executive Nick Buckles tells MPs he is the right person to make sure the firm delivers Olympics security staff, despite its struggle to supply enough guards.
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HSBC to apologise before Senate :: HSBC will apologise to the US Senate after an investigation claimed that the bank was being used to launder dirty money around the world.
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King criticises Barclays' board :: Barclays bank sailed "close to the wind" too often, the governor of the Bank of England tells MPs on the Treasury Select Committee.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18870461#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
GM opens up OnStar with peer-to-peer car sharing service :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/bwsZbjor4-U/
Rewards provider Kiip grabs $11M to go after consumers :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/PyL9kmww54I/
IMF Cuts India Growth Projections to 6.1 Per Cent for 2012; Recommends Subsidies Cut :: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday revised India's economic growth to 6.1 percent for 2012 from the previous April projection of 6.8 percent.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363829/20120717/imf-india-growth-projections-6-1-percent.htm
VIDEO: 'No reason to suspect Libor fixing' :: Sir Mervyn King tells MPs there was no evidence of Libor rates being fixed until the scandal first emerged two-weeks ago.
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New warning about online fraud :: New research suggests 12 million pieces of personal information were traded online by fraudsters between January and April this year.
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Black Abortions: Necessary Health Care Policy Or Genocide? :: Black women account for only 13 percent of the U.S. female population, but undergo more than one-third of all abortions.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363822/20120717/abortion-blacks-rates-poverty-health-care-obama.htm
Searching For Yield In A Zero-Rate Environment :: High nominal and real interest rates can be found in the Latin American short-term fixed income markets
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363820/20120717/zero-rates-yield-latin-america-ecb-europe.htm
Copper Is 'Slightly Overvalued': Barclays :: Copper prices have outperformed the overall metals market as traders have closed short selling in expectation of government intervention to boost growth, but the metal may still be "slightly overvalued," according to a Monday report by Barclays.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363819/20120717/copper-prices-overvalued-fed.htm
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.
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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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How UPS handles Olympic size logistics :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/gXEt2IRkpRE/
PIMCO's Mohamed el-Erian Tipped to be Next Egyptian Prime Minister :: CEO of world's biggest bond fund among names given to President Mohammed Mursi.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363805/20120717/egypt-pimco-el-erian-mursi-muslim-brotherhood.htm
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