| : BACK : |
| [18023720] FROM : Denniseremoind | → RES |
|
Mnkm New Jersey Gov. Seeks Commission To Evaluate State s Hospitals NIH To Award $1B To Young Researchers After Dropping Plan To Cap Support To Some LabsThe controversial proposal to limit the size of federal grants to individual labs raised concerns among senior scientists, so National Institutes of Health offered this compromise. Also in the news: a House panel is expected to again take up its investigation of a lab <a href=Link tumbler</a> problem two years ago.Stat:NIH Drops Controversial Plan To Cap Funding For Individual LabsOfficials at the federal agency that funds medical research Thursday scrapped a controversial plan to free up money for young researchers by cappin <a href=Link flask usa</a> g the amount of grant money it gives to individual labs. The proposal by the National Institutes of Health ?which last year handed out nearly $25 billion in research awards to universities and hospitals across the country ?came under fire from senior scientists who run labs that stood to lose funding. In its place, the NIH will establish new policies to boost support for early-career lab heads. Weisman, 6/8 The Wall Street Journal:National Institutes Of Health To Boost Grants To Young ScientistsThe National Institutes of Health said it would begin redirecting up to about $1.1 billion in research-grant money a year to early- and midcareer scientists to help boost their careers and preserve U.S. science. The agency said it would begin the <a href=Link website</a> redistribution immediately with about $210 million annually, but that the amount would steadily increase over five years to about $1.1 billion a year. Burton, Vlfo Nursing Program Enrollments Grew 6% In 2020, Despite Covid Thursday, Jan 23 2003Heineken to Offer Antiretroviral Drug Coverage to African WorkforceHeineken brewery is at the leading edge of an effort by multinationa<l> <companies> ... to forestall a wipeout of Africa s labor force, by guaranteeing antiretroviral drug coverage to it <a href=Link samba adidas</a> s African workforce of 6,000 and their immediate dependents, Forbes reports. Over the last year, Heineken has offered antiretroviral drugs to its employees in Rwanda and Burundi, and is beginning the program in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Countries with rickety hospitals and laboratories, such as Sierra Leone and Chad, or countries where Heineken has a minority stake in breweries, such as Angola and Morocco, will be last, Forbes reports. Heineken has hired not-for-profit PharmAccess, whic <a href=Link in uk</a> h trains local doctors to administer the antiretroviral drugs, to run the $2 million-a-year program. In one brewery that emplo <a href=Link nz</a> ys 600 workers, Heineken was losing an average of 10 workers or dependents a year to AIDS-related deaths, but last year it lost only one worker, who refused the drug treatment. If we don t do anything and say, Okay, let nature take its toll, then within seven years 20% of your senior management in Africa is gone, Hans van Mameren, head of Heineken s AIDS program, said. However, the program has been a struggle because only 30% of the workforce in Rwanda has taken an HIV/AIDS test, Forbes reports. Furthermore, Heineken s medic | |
|
MAIL 2025/11/28 [Fri] 13:08 | |
|
|