Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the funding of a project in New York that will improve wastewater services for the Village of Monticello, create construction jobs and support community development. The project is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the funding of a project in California that will improve wastewater services for the community of Los Osos, create construction jobs and support community development. USDA officials made the announcement at the San Luis Obispo County Government Center...
AVAC issues a call to action to donors, policy-makers, researchers and advocates to ensure that critical follow-up studies to the landmark CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial receive the economic and political support needed to move forward as quickly as possible. The call comes as a group of...
Inter Press Service examines how some African countries are benefiting from the global agriculture fund the G8 pledged $22 billion to in July 2009. According to the article, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which seeks to increase African spending on...
On August 23rd, a federal district judge issued a temporary ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Stem cell research holds great promise for the treatment of millions of Americans with debilitating and possibly fatal diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. Because of...
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) announces the 2010 recipients of its Trainee Research Awards. Through this program, which is designed to encourage the pursuit of research and spark an interest in hematology, 43 medical students, undergraduates, and residents will each receive $4,000 to...
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, leader of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' pro-life activities committee, sent a letter to House members urging them to support a bill (HR 5939) that would permanently ban federal funding for abortion services, The Hill's "Healthwatch" reports. Since 1976...
States are considering how likely-to-be-extended federal money for their Medicaid programs will affect their state budgets. The Boston Globe: "Massachusetts stands to receive $655 million in federal Medicaid and education money under an aid package that narrowly cleared a key...
The Senate agreed Wednesday morning to proceed with consideration of a $26.1 billion state aid package, which includes $16 billion in Medicaid assistance, by a cloture vote of 61 to 38. The action was followed within hours by an announcement from Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she is calling the...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "A New Fight Over Abortion Access," Joyce Tang, Daily Beast's "Blogs & Stories": Antiabortion-rights crisis pregnancy centers "have long operated under the guise of reproductive health care" and "been largely unregulated...
United General Practice Australia (UGPA) - the coalition of the peak groups representing Australia 's general practitioners - commends the Government on its investment and focus on general practice nurses, but is calling on the Government to ensure that the Budget proposal does not disadvantage...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has been awarded two individual $2 million grants from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to support clinical studies of ofatumumab (Arzerra®, GlaxoSmithKline) in the treatment of hematologic malignancies and pazopanib (Votrient®, GlaxoSmithKline) in the...
Cerenis Therapeutics SA (Cerenis), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel high-density lipoprotein (HDL) therapies to treat cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases, and Groupe Novasep (Novasep), a leading supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industries, announce...
On 25th July, 1978 Louise Brown, the first in vitro fertilization baby was born thanks to privately funded research carried out by the Cambridge (UK) physiologist Robert Edwards and the Oldham (UK) gynecologist Patrick Steptoe. The whole thing was privately funded because the Medical Research...
Marc E. Rothenberg, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's, has received an NIH MERIT Award to extend funding of his long-standing investigation into "Regulation of Gastrointestinal Eosinophils." Dr. Rothenberg received the award from the...
U.S. Should Spend More To Combat HIV Globally "Having met President [Barack] Obama, I'm confident that he's a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world's poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in...
The Computer Clubhouse initiative exposes adolescents from underserved communities across New Zealand to computing and Internet technologies. Youth make use of state-of-the-art technology and work with adult mentors to develop vocational skills and build self-confidence.
Edge Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has received $100,000 in financing from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) to supplement an Edison Innovation R&D Grant of $500,000 awarded to Edge in November 2009. Edge will use the funding for further development of its novel...
The Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney T.D. today welcomed the publication of the report of the Expert Group on Resource Allocation and Financing in the Health Sector, which she established in April 2009. The Group was tasked with analysing the current resource allocation arrangements...