The South African Research Ethics Training Initiative, SARETI, is a joint project by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the University of Pretoria, faculty from Johns Hopkins University, and the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health to offer

JAMA (Volume 302, Number 1, July 1, 2009) is now available by subscription only.Articles Include:"The Obligation to Participate in Biomedical Research" by G. Owen Schaefer, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Alan Wertheimer, 67-72."Ethical Collection, Storage, and Use of Public Health Data:

Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 3, April 2009) is now available by subscription only.Articles Include:"Towards a history of choice in UK health policy" by Ian Greener, 309-324."Who's minding the data? Data Monitoring Committees in clinical cancer trials"

Graduate student Brad Balukjian spent a year teaching biodiversity to Tahitian 5th graders on the island of Moorea while pursuing study of the island's endemic insects.

As take-home DNA kits grow in popularity, it's increasingly important that the federal government oversee "direct-to consumer" genetic testing and the use of DNA samples for research, say scientists from UC Berkeley and other academic institutions.

The UW is among the nation's leaders in producing several categories of minority baccalaureates, notably those of Asian American students, acccording the journal Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Tracy Harachi is spearheading an effort to bring the field and practice of social work to Cambodian where there currently is no program at the college level to train students to become social workers.

We invite all flamingos to participate in the wild race to the top of all score lists in Mingoville's new virtual world for kids. To celebrate the opening of our new virtual world, we give out 50 SuperLearnerships to the

Hello Mingovillers,We have written a lot about the launch of Mingoville Virtual World over the past months, and about all the games where kids can immerse themselves into the English language by playing lots of fun, educational games. Now, Mingoville

TRaC has formally launched its ZigBee RF4CE test service allowing certification against this standard. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2009) Read the full story at

Magellan BioScience Group, Inc. (Magellan), a pioneer in innovative drug development from marine sources, and investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at Lake Nona (Burnham) announced today that they will begin a multidisciplinary drug discovery collaboration to identify

The VerteLoc™ Minimally Invasive Spine Stabilization system has now been implanted in more than 500 patients across the United States. Surgeon acceptance of the surgical procedure continues to drive record growth. VGI will pursue its first FDA 510K on another

An unexpected love sends Jake spinning.

A marriage for an investigation that isn't annulled causes havoc for Clint and Alyssa.

Lisa Edwards, Ashling Kennedy, and Clodagh Kelly are three women who have found themselves in horribly average places in their lives.

Who will win the heart of the beautiful gypsy dancer?

Ruby believes she doesn't need anybody, but when she's abandoned by the one person who has always been in her life, she must start anew and learn for herself the true definition of family.

Surface measurements of ozone and its precursor gases NO2 and CO have been made over an urban site of Agra (semi-arid region) for year 2005. O3, NO2 and CO show diurnal variations during all seasons. Overall increased concentration of O3

An urban dispersion model (ADMS Urban) was run to calculate PM10 and NO2 concentration during a one-year period, on a district of Bologna, Italy. Moreover, the exposure of 333 children was estimated using model outputs corrected with observations. The model