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Video, presentations from comparative effectiveness conference available online
Earlier this month, ECRI’s 17th annual conference tackled the thorniest detail of comparative effectiveness research, namely that it’s rarely a…
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$95 million to figure out proper doses for kids
On The Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog, Katherine Hobson profiles the Pediatric Trials Network, a seven-year, NIH-funded effort to determine…
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Gays excluded from clinical trials
Thanks to an awards announcement from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, we just noticed Jen Colletta’s story in…
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Ruling puts stem cell research on hold
A federal judge’s ruling has, at least temporarily, blocked efforts to expand stem cell research, based on a decision that…
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AHCJ has resources for World Tuberculosis Day
In honor of World Tuberculosis Day, an awareness day organized by the Stop TB Partnership, here’s a roundup of the…
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Third-party PubMed video tutorials in plain English
PubMed‘s fantastic, but it can also be mighty frustrating. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine, it’s the interface through…
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NIH updates stimulus grant info, releases database
We’ve been waiting for this one. The National Institutes of Health have followed through on their promise to release a…
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Does stimulus-funded research stimulate?
Reporter Michelle Breidenbach of the Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard considers local academic research being funded by stimulus money and wonders just…
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Collins unanimously confirmed as head of NIH
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., has been unanimously confirmed as director of the National Institutes of Health, HHS Secretary Kathleen…
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NIH on Wikipedia: If you can’t beat ’em…
The Washington Post‘s Ibby Caputo reports that the National Institutes of Health, upon realizing that more folks are looking for…