New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit
Activists hope this weekend's African Union (AU) summit will net commitments to boost government spending on public health, helping to curb the spread of AIDS, which killed 2.3 million Africans in 2004. "We are definitely optimistic that this time there will be some movement, that this time there will be not just talk about an HIV strategy for the AU but how to tackle an action-oriented p...Disease diagnosis, bioengineering covered at state nano summit
Research into the evolution of protein design by a University of Houston professor will be featured among nearly 20 presentations at the 2005 Nano Summit Research Conference July 28. Sponsored by the Nanotechnology Found...Digital Government Summit seeks to bridge the digital divide
Matt Miszewski, CIO for the State of Wisconsin, said the goal of the conference was to develop connections between public and private...Forum builds on the work of the Wisconsin Economic Summit
That's not to say the four summits that took place between 2000 and 2003 were unsuccessful; on the contrary, they highlighted economic trends that are shaping the state's growth. But once those general themes were pinpointed, and political will was mobilized to do something about them, the Wisconsin E...Midwest Venture Summit disappoints; Cato grades Midwest governors
Herewith the latest of irregular alarums and excursions relevant to the world of Midwest technology entrepreneurs: Last week, the Midwest Venture Summit was held in Chicago and featured about 30 early stage companies. About 10 were sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the Keiretsu Forum. Though about 60 individual professional investors were regi...Doyle Preaches Importance of Tech Industry at Summit
Madison, Wis. When Gov. Jim Doyle took office last year he faced the largest budget deficit in the history of Wisconsin a gap of nearly 3.2 billion dollars and a challenge that seemed insurmountable for a first-term governor. However, at the 2004 Governors Conference on Economic Development</a...Create a Governors Technology Summit
The 2003 Wisconsin Economic Summit started today. It will be interesting to see if this years conference attracts any more technologists than the previous three Summits. My hunch is that it will not and we will see the usual list of suspects who frankly know almost nothing about high technology. As in the past, the hall will be filled with those who sincerely want to help but who are clueless a...Global Health Issues To Take Priority In The Current G8 Summit In Russia
The Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations summit, which begins on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia, is to have the global health issues high on its list// of priority. Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief public health officer, addressing the press stated that the G8 members would be signing a document that would establish the basic guidelines for combating infectious diseases w...UN Secretary General Urges G8 Summit to Act on Climate Change
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the G8 summit of the world's top industrialised nations to take measures to combat climate change, warning that inaction would be costly. In a statement before the G8 summit in June at Heiligendamm in Germany, Ban said the eight participating nations should "devise and implement a long-term global framework to tackle climate change that ad...Experts Congregate for UN Climate Summit in Bangkok
The world's leading climate experts and state representatives from 150 nations gathered in Bangkok Monday for a five-day meet on the UN's recommendations for curbing// carbon emissions to slow global warming. "The time is now," said Chartree Chueytrasit, deputy permanent secretary of Thailand's ministry of natural resources and environment, in opening remarks at the UN's Intergovernme...G8 Members To Announce Plans To Increase HIV/AIDS Spending at Summit
Members of the Group of Eight industrialized nations plan to unveil their commitments to increase spending for fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic during their upcoming 2007 summit , which is scheduled to be held next week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesperson, Ulrich Wilhelm, said at a news conference on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Wilhelm said details of the spending commitments would be a...Summit SI Spinal Fixation System
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Program to address a broad range of topics coveringresearch-related issues and best practices in bioinformatics andcomputational biology BETHESDA, Md., June 21, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TheAmerican Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Board of Directors,in support of its strategic plan, has approved the development ofan annual meeting that will explore topics related to translati...