The News Review:

- Universities see NIEHS spigot flowing again
- Clinical research centers have several missions:
- American Cancer Society to Present Highest Honor for utstanding…
- Research And Clinical Center To Lead International Muscular Dystrophy…
- Medical science park planned in Tiruvallur

Universities see NIEHS spigot flowing again
Bizjournals.com – Oct 26, 2007
A congressional staff analysis of Schwartz also found that he was shifting the priorities of the agency away from long-term population studies that stress disease prevention while beefing up clinical research on disease treatment. Many of the prevention programs are university-based and attract millions in research dollars across departments while clinical research is more narrowly focused and often based at the NIEHS. The congressional analysis found that Schwartz was phasing out funding for the National Children's Study which examines the influence of environmental factors on the health of more than 100000 children across the United States. The report notes that Schwartz had cut the NIEHS portion of the funding for the National Children's Study down to $1. 6 million for 2006 and had zeroed out funds for 2007. He had also cut funds from university-based programs such as the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research.

Clinical research centers have several missions:
Inserm – Oct 26, 2007
Clinical research centers provide healthy volunteers or patients taking part in biomedical research all the required guarantees in terms of safety and compliance with good clinical practices and ethical rules governing clinical trials. Technical committee  The technical committee coordinates the clinical research center’s scientific activities; it selects the projects to be conducted in the clinical research center helps formalize these projects if necessary and regularly monitors their progress. Clinical research center personnel The coordinating physician has overall scientific responsibility for the activities carried out in the context of the clinical research center.

American Cancer Society to Present Highest Honor for utstanding…
ACS News Center – Oct 26, 2007
The Medal of Honor originally called the American Cancer Society Award was first given in 1949. Myers president and chief executive officer of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will receive the Society’s Medal of Honor for Cancer Control. He is being honored for his relentless work to eliminate tobacco use among children. By changing public attitudes and public policies on tobacco the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids which is a leader in the fight to reduce tobacco use in the US and around the globe strives to prevent kids from smoking help smokers quit and protect everyone from secondhand smoke. The Campaign also acts as a counter force to the tobacco industry and its special interests.

Research And Clinical Center To Lead International Muscular Dystrophy…
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Oct 26, 2007
He is also a major donor and supporter of the New York City Police Foundation and Good Shepherd Service and is a board member or Farm Aid a non-profit organization working to promote a strong and sustainable family farm-based system of agriculture throughout the country. “I have a personal family connection to FSHD so I know the impact it has on families throughout the United States and the world” said Fields. “The University of Rochester has long been a leader in muscular dystrophy research so they were a natural fit to establish a center to focus on genetic and clinical research to FSHD patients. I see this gift as a significant step in giving this disease the medical attention it deserves and hope that the Fields Center will be a center for leadership and innovation in the field for many years to come. FSHD is one of the more common forms of muscular dystrophy. Most symptoms do not appear until the teen years but the disease does also appear albeit more rarely in very young children and infants. The condition which is genetic in origin is characterized by a progressive weakness of muscles starting in the face shoulder blades and upper arms.

Medical science park planned in Tiruvallur
Hindu – Oct 26, 2007
The Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Bio Materials at SASTRA University specialises in polymer synthesis and covers tissue engineering nano-biosciences and photovoltaics. “The synergy of clinical research and the ongoing work on nano-scaffolds at the university has the potential to evolve commercially viable medical products” dean S. Sanjay Cherian director Frontier Lifeline said the collaboration would help the research stay focussed on patient benefit and troubleshoot hitches that surfaced along the way.