The Illinois Eye Institute (IEI) has launched Chicago Vision Outreach, a pilot initiative that will improve eye care for patients in desperate need. The program will connect optometrists to underserved patients who suffer from vision and eye care problems often caused by chronic illnesses such...
Leading brain researcher P. Read Montague will join the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute on Nov. 15, announced institute director Michael Friedlander. Montague will be a senior professor and will lead programs in human neuroimaging and the new field of computational psychiatry at the...
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine's Institute for Juvenile Research will celebrate its centennial anniversary Oct. 1. The celebration, at the UIC Student Center West, 828 S. Wolcott Ave., will highlight the neuroscience and psychosocial research of the institute and how...
So, does this mean that if I stamp my feet, whine and institute a "Burn the Bible"
day...? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/quran-burning-church-dove_n_711159.html
Does this mean that if I stamp my feet and shake my fists and declare March 17th 2011 an "official burn a bible day" (in...
The Institute for Creation "Research" moved from California to Texas a few years ago in part, it is believed, to set up a masters program for teachers in life sciences. I'm guessing they figured they could get Texas to certify a bogus Masters program more easily than California. They did make...
Guided Therapeutics, Inc. (GT) (OTCBB: GTHP) announced that it was awarded $1.0 million to fund the second year of a $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced in 2009. The three-year grant provides additional resources to commercialize and bring to market the...
I bought a Distance learning course from http://www.alchemyhomestudy.com/ and they just sent me two modules out of 6, for the past 6 months I have been trying to contact them but they simply do not care at all is there any way for me to file a complain against them?
Livingston, LA School Board To Implement Discovery Institute's "Academic Freedom" Law
Barbara Forrest, author of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, has a major blog post addressing the current maneno in Louisiana. A Parish school board there wants to place creationism...
IntegraMed America, Inc. (NASDAQ: INMD), the leader in developing, marketing and managing specialty healthcare facilities in the fertility and vein care markets, announced it had entered into an agreement with Austin Fertility Institute to begin offering IntegraMed's Attain® IVF Programs to...
By: Judith S. Palfrey, MD, FAAP, president, American Academy of Pediatrics "The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) congratulates pediatrician and medical geneticist Alan Guttmacher, MD, FAAP, on his appointment to serve as the new director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of...
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have joined forces with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Washington University in St. Louis to investigate a potential new therapy for sickle cell disease, a severe and chronic illness affecting more than 70,000...
American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz issued the following statement applauding the House Education and Labor Committee for approving the Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act. "This legislation reauthorizing federal childhood nutrition programs is...
The Wistar Institute announces that cancer biologist Dario C. Altieri, M.D., has been appointed director of Wistar's Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center since 1972. Altieri will also take on the role of the Institute's Chief Scientific Officer and professor in the...
Nobel Prize winner Harold E. Varmus, M.D., took the oath of office to become the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) 14th director. NCI is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "It's very exciting to have you back," said Health and Human...
okay so im a senior in highschool and want to attend FIT in New York City summer of 2011.
i want to know more about the school but because my sister has all the attention going off to her college, im kind of lost and unsure what to do about my college really.
i want to know if i should contact...
The Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute has been awarded a $1.66 million, four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a measurement system that could help doctors predict which patients could be struck by sudden cardiac arrest, a...
Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, announced that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) has released positive test results...
The American Academy of Ophthalmology has nominated Daniel F. Martin, MD, for consideration as a member of the governing board of the newly created Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The institute was created in the expansive health care reform law passed earlier this year. It...
The National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH) has delivered its highest honor to one of its largest members. Wishard Health Services, the nation's third-largest safety net health care system in outpatient visits, and the Regenstrief Institute Inc., an...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, announced June 21 that it will fund nine research grants to improve the safety of red blood cell transfusions. Wake Forest University Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a collaborator at the...