Australian of the Year 2006, Professor Ian Frazer, will this evening follow in the footsteps of some of Australia?s greatest medical researchers, including Nobel Laureates Professor Barry Marshall and Professor Robin Warren, by being awarded the Merck Sharp & Dohme Florey Medal.
Smt. D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, handed over the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award to CARE India, a renowned humanitarian organization, for their innovative primary education initiative for ?dropouts? and for ?never enrolled girls?.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced that the UK Government is accepting the 2007 pay review body recommendations for NHS staff and GPs. In line with the rest of the public sector, the implementation of awards over 1.5 per cent will be staged, with 1.5 per cent paid from 1 April and the remainder being paid from 1 November.
The British Medical Association [BMA] said the 2007-08 settlement for doctors was a pay cut and that UK doctors would feel betrayed and insulted to be offered such a derisory pay deal.
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that David Julius, a physiologist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), will be the 2007 recipient of the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
The first recipients have been selected for a new international scholarship opportunity, sponsored by the European Hematology Association (EHA) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH), for scientists in training or the early phase of their careers.
An Australian dairy business has been rewarded for its work in developing lucrative local and export markets for milk, that is naturally-rich in healthy Omega-3 oils.
Age-related eye diseases, their treatment, and the latest research to find cures will take center stage at the 2007 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting to be held at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 6-10, 2007.
In an effort to reach a greater audience, and help patients and their families understand their cancer treatment options, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology now offers Spanish versions of their popular brochures Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer and Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded multi-year, multi-million dollar grants to The Case Clinical Trials Unit centered at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC), for expanded research options in HIV treatment development and pioneering advances of the Microbicides Trials Network.