NIH Advisory Group Recommends Changes for Biomedical Research Workforce :: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) should make changes to workforce policies in order to promote the long-term sustainability of the biomedical research workforce, according to a new report by a government advisory group. NIH must address the increasing completion time for graduate degrees, low postdoctoral pay, and declining proportion of young researchers who obtain tenure-track positions.
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)
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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 ...<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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Countering the Livestock‐Targeted Bioterrorism Threat and Responding with an Animal Health Safeguarding System :: SummaryAttacks against livestock and poultry using biological agents constitute a subtype of agroterrorism. These attacks are defined as the intentional introduction of an animal infectious disease to strike fear in people, damage a nation's economy and/or threaten social stability. Livestock bioterrorism is considered attractive to terrorists because biological agents for use against livestock or poultry are more readily available and difficult to monitor than biological agents for use against humans. In addition, an attack on animal husbandry can have enormous economic consequences, even without human casualties. Animal husbandry is vulnerable to livestock‐targeted bioterrorism because it is nearly impossible to secure all livestock animals, and compared with humans, livestock are le...
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Elizabeth Spiers Leaves Behind A Digitally Invigorated New York Observer :: Elizabeth Spiers, the editor of the New York Observer, is leaving the newspaper at the end of August after expanding its digital offerings in the past 18 months, diversifying its revenue stream in a challenging advertising environment.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369863/20120802/elizabeth-spiers-observer-digital.htm
Goldman Sachs In Jail: Why Is Big Money Moving Into Social Impact Bonds? :: The investment at Rikers Island prison is a so-called "social-impact bond", the first of its kind for an American city, and means any potential return for Goldman hinges on the success of a program that will educate, train and counsel inmates aged between 16 and 18.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369767/20120802/goldman-sachs-social-impact-bonds.htm
ECB Head Mario Draghi In Central Banker 'Hell' After Atrocious News Conference :: ECB President Mario Draghi was in policy hell Thursday after disappointing market-watchers at what was the most anticipated and important press conference of his career as a monetary policy leader.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369751/20120802/draghi-conference-hell-gemany-buba-weidmann.htm
US Mortgage Rates Up For Second Time In 14 Weeks: Freddie Mac :: U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rates rose for only the second time in the past 14 weeks on modest economic improvements, mortgage financier Freddie Mac said Thursday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369734/20120802/mortgage-rates-rise-aug-freddie-mac.htm
The Dangerous Roads Of Morocco: Traffic Fatalities Very High In North African State :: About 4,200 people died in traffic accidents in Morocco in 2011, a 12 percent jump from the prior year, according to the nation's equipment and transportation ministry.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369714/20120802/morocco-road-accidents-fatalities-drivers-tourists.htm
Inter Milan in Chinese stake sale :: Italian football club Inter Milan says that a group of Chinese investors will become its second-largest shareholder.
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ECB: Markets Slump As Draghi Fails to Follow Support Pledge with Specific Details :: Investors disappointed by ECB President Mario Draghi's press conference in Frankfurt as bond purchase programme remains dormant.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369701/20120802/ecb-draghi-euro-smp-bond-buying-bundesbank.htm
San Bernardino Bankruptcy: California City Seeks Protection From Creditors In US Bankruptcy Court :: The California city of San Bernardino filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing more than $1 billion of debts. The filing makes it the third California city to seek protection from creditors in recent weeks.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369698/20120802/san-bernardino-bankruptcy-california-court-city.htm
US Initial Jobless Claims Rise To 365,000 - Less Than Expected :: The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits last week rose less than expected, the Labor Department said Thursday, partly reflecting the volatility of applications during the annual auto-plant retooling period.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369673/20120802/initial-jobless-claims-challenger-job-cuts.htm
Space Tourism Worth $1.5B In First Decade :: A number of companies, led by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, have already started taking bookings for suborbital travel, with a view to launching the first flights in late 2013.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369651/20120802/space-tourism-virgin-galactic-travel.htm
European Central Bank Holds Interest Rates Steady :: The European Central Bank on Thursday held its benchmark interest rate steady at its record-low level, in a decision that was widely anticipated.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369643/20120802/european-central-bank-ecb.htm
Dhoni Tops Forbes' Highest Paid Cricketers List, Beats Tendulkar :: India's captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni tops the list of the world's highest earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, followed by compatriot Sachin Tendulkar, as six Indians feature in the top 10.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369624/20120802/dhoni-highest-paid-cricketer-tendulkar-kohli-ponting.htm
How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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Healthy Eating Hindered By Parents' Work-Life Stress :: In a tight economy, with fewer jobs, many people end up working harder and sacrificing more to stay employed. A new study finds that one of those sacrifices is sometimes their own and their family's nutrition. While prior studies have implicated working mothers in providing less healthy family food environments, this is one of the first studies of family nutrition to look at fathers - in particular a population of urban fathers, who face higher rates of unemployment and under-employment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Lippo unit's stake lures private equity to Indonesia: sources :: JAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The chance to buy as much as 49 percent of Indonesia's largest private healthcare operator, Siloam Hospitals, is attracting a slew of global private equity firms to the sale, as they bet on a rapid rise in healthcare spending in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, sources said. (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Honduras Bans Guns In Colon Region, But Paramilitaries Will Be Exempt :: Honduras, which has the world's highest homicide rate already -- estimated at 86.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants according to the United Nations -- has witnessed a particularly gruesome spike in carnage in Colon, from two different fronts.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/370164/20120803/honduras-gun-bans-colon-drug-trafficking-land.htm
Spain Inches Towards Full EU Bailout :: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy inched closer on Friday to asking for an EU bailout for his country, but said he needed first to know what conditions would be attached and what form the rescue would take.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/370152/20120803/spain-euro-zone-financial-crisis-debt-europe.htm
US Economy Created 163,000 Jobs In July - Better Than Expected :: The U.S. economy created 163,000 jobs in July -- better than the 100,000 consensus estimate. The unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/370082/20120803/jobs-unemployment-rate-economy-gdp.htm
India Monsoon Failure Raises Spectre of Drought :: June to September monsoon is critical for India as farmers plant most of their summer crops during this period.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/370017/20120803/india-monsoon-drought-inflation-gdp.htm
India's Service Sector PMI Growth Dips Slightly In July :: India's service sector continued its growth for the ninth consecutive month in July, based on a slow but steady growth in new orders, according to the latest HSBC PMI data released Friday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/370008/20120803/india-s-service-sector-pmi-growth-july.htm
Former Howard Minister, Labor Censure Coalition over Foreign Investment Plans :: A Coalition federal government would impose tougher measures on foreign investments based on plans outlined in the discussion paper unleashed by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on Friday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369972/20120803/former-howard-minister-labor-censure-coalition-over.htm
Top After-Market Nasdaq Movers (Blue Nile, OpenTable, MercadoLibre, Skullcandy, Sequenom, Body Central, Exide, Tractor Supply, comScore) :: The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Thursday were Blue Nile Inc, OpenTable Inc, MercadoLibre Inc, Skullcandy Inc and Sequenom Inc. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Body Central Corp, Zipcar Inc, Exide Technologies Inc, Tractor Supply Company and comScore.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369962/20120803/top-market-nasdaq-movers-blue-nile-opentable.htm
China Services Activity Recovered In July: HSBC PMI :: China's services activity growth recovered in July to the fastest pace in nine months after the slowdown in June, according to the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) released Friday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369948/20120803/china-services-pmi.htm
India Confirms Drought as El Nino Looms :: Monsoon rains will not be enough to save the country from its first drought in three years, the weather office said on Thursday as it forecast that the El Nino weather pattern should reduce rains again in the second half of the June to September season.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369945/20120803/india-drought-el-nino-weather-crops-gold.htm
China Airlines Increases Flights to Taipei from New Zealand :: Effective October 28, Taiwan's China Airlines will increase its number of flights from New Zealand to Taipei via Sydney to four times a week.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/369928/20120802/taipe-new-zealand-australia-flights-china.htm
LinkedIn beats analyst forecasts :: Business-focused social networking website LinkedIn's quarterly profits beat expectations as Facebook shares slump another 4%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19105409#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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