The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed to trim the budget of the National Institutes of Healthby .6 percen, This would leave the NIH at $30.5 billion ,The Committee also proposes $582 million to launch the National Center for Advancing Translational Research, while eliminating the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘School of Medicine’
September 27th, 2011 - 8:38 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
BREAKING NEWS: NIH budget has modest cuts .. so far
September 23rd, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
The AVE Challenge: Who is going to win the Nobel Sunday Night?
About 9 AM Stockholm time Monday, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. Here is Thompsons’s list with my thumb added in an appropriate direction where[...]
August 1st, 2011 - 12:12 pm § in America
US Founds First Cancer Lab
NIH: Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and […][...]
May 23rd, 2011 - 6:07 am § in UW
AVE CHALLENGE: Which UW School of Medicine is the Fourth Most Popular Med School in the USA?
The University of WASHINGTON School of Medicine is the nation’s fourth most popular medical school, according to an analysis by U.S. News and World Report. The only trouble is, the picture of the school, as reported by Huff Post, is not of the UW School of Medicine. (I retouched it to add [...]
April 19th, 2011 - 9:07 pm § in UW
UW receives five-year cooperative agreement of up to $300 million for health training in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean
from UW Medicine by Tom Furtwangler As part of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a massive effort to combat infectious diseases and strengthen health systems worldwide, the U.S. government has awarded a $300 million five-year cooperative agreement to the Universi[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 9:04 am § in UW
USN&WR: UW Medical School ONLY Public School In Top Ten!
I am sure we would all like to tell Jim McDermott, our Congressman, about this? Congressman, McDermott, an MD and a strong advocate of better health care for Americans, seems unaware that the UWSOM is rated #1 in primary care and rural medicine. He should visit Seattle![...]
March 30th, 2011 - 12:35 pm § in Uncategorized
A prescription for Washington’s doctor shortage
By Ken Roberts, Special to the Herald At Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, you’ll occasionally find University of Washington medical students in white lab coats. Some are with doctors who are tutoring them during their six-week-long obstetrics clerkships. These students learn how to care for [...]
Keeping WA State Kids Out of Medical School!
Cutbacks in state funding of public universities are leading faculty and administration to one form or another of privatization. What does this mean for kids in any state that now has a prestigious, world class public school? What does it mean for Washington State? A good way to find out is to com[...]
To succeed, US must continue to invest in education, research
“America’s current circumstances are certainly serious. But there is a proven path forward, one that the United States has traveled with great success before: the rising path of innovation. After the Civil War and World War II, in particular, America restored its economic momentum with great[...]
To Jim McDermott, PLEASE READ THIS
UW TOPS IN PRIMARY CARE AND NIH RESEARCH! Ed. A few days ago we posted a riposte to Congressman McDermott because he failed to site the UWSOM in an article he authored in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. His article talked a lot about the importance of primary care and physicians[...]