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NIH Suspends Grant to Emory University
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has suspended a $9 million grant for a depression study led by psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff at Emory University in Atlanta. The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH-funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.
Recipients of NIH grants are required to report income from industry consulting activities 
Drugmakers Fund Journalism Group
kavin submitted, created time 3 months 3 weeks (blogs.wsj.com)
Doctors and medical associations have taken plenty of lumps for relying on drug companies to sponsor continuing medical education courses. Critics say the sessions are often biased in favor of a particular medicine or drugs over alternative treatments for disease.
Now add journalists to the groups that are getting professional education subsidized by Big Pharma.
At the Unity convention in Chicago-–a gathering of thousands of minority journalists-–the diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk sponsored a lunch yesterday called, “The Diabetes Explosion: A Call to Action for Journalists of Color 
Genomic medicine sector "needs government backing"
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.scidev.net)
Government support, strong leadership within institutions and the protection of "genomic sovereignty" are vital to the burgeoning genomic medicine sector in developing countries, say researchers.
Some developing countries are starting to use genomic science, aiming both for public health benefits and to produce knowledge to stimulate their economies. They often do this by setting up large-scale genotyping projects to assess susceptibility to disease 


jane2007 submitted, created time 9 months 9 hours (www.nature.com)
Because of the faulty current process of US National Institutes of Health (NIH), a new proposals proposals aim to change that, at least for the best grants, by eliminating what they call the "special status" of amended applications that often sees them funded before promising first-time proposals. 


House backs taxpayer-funded research access
bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.taxpayeraccess.org)
In what advocates hailed as a major advance for scientific communication, the US House of Representatives yesterday approved a measure directing the National Institutes of Health, to provide free public online access to agency-funded research findings within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal. 
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