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MSF closes two large clinics in Mogadishu after two staff members killed last month

January 20, 2012
"Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has shut down two major medical centers in the Somali capital Mogadishu after two of its aid workers were shot dead by a former colleague last month, the international medical aid agency said on Thursday," AlertNet reports.

NHS Pensions, BMA Launches Final Survey Of Its Members, UK

January 9, 2012
About 130,000 BMA Doctors and medical students across the UK will be questioned regarding the government's final offer in negotiations on the future of the NHS pension scheme in a major survey that has been launched by the BMA (British Medical Association). The BMA intends to learn ...

Chimps, like humans, inform ignorant group members of danger

December 30, 2011
It's a basic rule of effective communication: Consider your audience. According to a new report published online on December 29 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that rule of thumb is not lost on wild chimpanzees. Chimps are more likely to make an alarm call about the presence of ...

Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight

December 28, 2011
Small monkey groups may win territorial disputes against larger groups because some members of the larger, invading groups avoid aggressive encounters. In a new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Margaret Crofoot and Ian Gilby of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Max Planck Institute ...

Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight

December 27, 2011
Small monkey groups may win territorial disputes against larger groups because some members of the larger, invading groups avoid aggressive encounters. In a new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Margaret Crofoot and Ian Gilby of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Max ...

Six UNC faculty members named AAAC fellow

December 16, 2011
Six University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Nation’s largest federation of biological and biomedical organizations welcomes 2 new members

December 8, 2011
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is pleased to announce the addition of two new member societies, the Society for Glycobiology and the Society for Pediatric Research, which will bring the Federation membership to 26 societies in 2012. "These are very dynamic groups representing extremely important areas ...

Nation’s largest federation of biological and biomedical organizations welcomes 2 new members

December 8, 2011
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is pleased to announce the addition of two new member societies, the Society for Glycobiology and the Society for Pediatric Research, which will bring the Federation membership to 26 societies in 2012.

UCLA School of Nursing faculty members to present at AHA 2011

November 14, 2011
A failing heart's effect on the short-term memory. The impact of telephone interventions on behaviors in Latinos. Depression and heart disease. Risk factors contributing to premature coronary atherosclerosis in premenopausal women. These are just a few of the research findings that will be presented by faculty members of the UCLA ...

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, research shows

November 12, 2011
Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will ...

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, Penn research shows

November 12, 2011
ORLANDO Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Members of the public lack skills, confidence necessary to save lives with CPR, Penn research shows

November 12, 2011
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...