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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HSBC was used by 'drug kingpins' :: HSBC provided a conduit for "drug kingpins and rogue nations", according to a US Senate committee investigating money laundering claims at the bank.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18867054#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Poll: If carriers charge for FaceTime over cellular, will you pay? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/86934O0_AAA/
Dairy Crest sees sales rise 15% :: One of the UK's largest dairy processors, Dairy Crest, which is cutting the price it pays farmers for milk, reports a 15% rise in first quarter sales.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18867471#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Gamified courses from Course Hero and Bunchball boost student engagement :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/0biREGtFwPM/
G4S boss regrets Olympic contract :: G4S chief executive Nick Buckles tells MPs he regrets taking on the Olympics security contract, agreeing it has been a "humiliating shambles".
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18866153#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
As Greece's Unemployment Surges, Britain Seeks To Stop Greek Influx :: Greece's jobless rate is about double the average for the EU, while the unemployment rate among youths under 25 is an astounding 51.5 percent -- having doubled over the past three years.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363986/20120717/greek-unemployment-uk-eu-immigartion-jobless.htm
US Stocks Turn Down As Bernanke Offers Gloomy Economic Outlook :: U.S. stocks gave back early gains and turned negative after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke set out a downbeat view of the economy to Congress without promising imminent easing measures.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363984/20120717/fed-chairman-ben-bernanke-testimony-congress-stock.htm
Bernanke says Libor system flawed :: Action to address the looming tax rises and spending cuts in the US is needed "sooner rather than later", the head of the Federal Reserve warns.
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Pension provision 'still falling' :: Membership of company and private pension schemes is continuing to decline, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
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US Industrial Production Up 0.4% In June :: Industrial Production in the U.S. increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent in June after a 0.2 percent dip in May, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday, led by gains among automobile and machinery makers that suggests some resilience in the manufacturing sector.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363976/20120717/industrial-production-up-0-4-june.htm
Fed Ready To Do More To Increase Job Growth: Bernanke :: The head of the world's most powerful central bank said it stands ready to offer additional monetary support to a U.S. economy that has slowed significantly in recent months, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers on Tuesday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363973/20120717/federal-reserve-bernanke-jobs-quantitative-easing-unemployment.htm
2012 football tickets withdrawn :: Half a million Olympic football tickets are being withdrawn from sale but 200,000 for other sports are to be made available.
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Branson eyes up Virgin Records :: Sir Richard Branson is considering buying back Virgin Records, the music company he founded more than 40 years ago.
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Nigeria seeks $5bn fine for Shell :: Nigeria's government asks Shell to pay $5bn (£ 3.2bn) over an oil spill off the country's southern coast last December.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18875731#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Retail Sales Under a Dark Cloud Due to Rainy UK Weather :: Miserable weather across the UK has cast a dark cloud over the struggling retail sector and could upset consumer-led economic growth in the second half of the year.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363950/20120717/uk-retail-sector-weather-rain-sales-brc.htm
Racemi nets $7M to attack booming cloud broker biz :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/BqSvpZN0sYQ/
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