Funding and bureaucracy, not access to journals, are chief obstacles to scientific productivity
The single most important issue obstructing the productivity of biomedical scientists today is the culture of research funding. This finding challenges the belief of some that the lack of "open access" to journal content is a major barrier to scientific productivity. A survey of 883 biomedical scientists ?in Europe and North America - commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium fo...State technology chief endorses IT audit recommendations
Oskar Anderson, administrator of the DET since late February, said he concurs with all the recommendations conta...Fusion 2007: CA chief says IT complexity raises risk
That according to John Swainson, president and CEO of 2007 Fusion CEO-CIO...Web-Based Learning Developed under new Chief Education Officer
Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Renaissance Learning, a provider of school improvement programs and learning information systems for educators, announced Saturday the appointment of Arthur Stellar to the newly created position of chief education officer. Stellar plans to lead the development of Renaissance Place, an integrated, Web-based information system that allows educators to monitor progr...UNAIDS Chief Appeals for Projects to Battle AIDS/HIV
The UN has made a global appeal for implementation of various projects to combat the dreaded AIDS/HIV. 'There is a crisis over implementation of programs in defeating HIV/AIDS and our response is to mobilize political momentum // globally and to see that the fruits of investment help in checking new infections,' Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, said. 'Out top priority is to...EU medical chief says Europe ready for bird flu
Europe is ready to deal with a nearly certain outbreak of a bird flu pandemic among humans within the next 10 years, says a top EU medical expert.// Professor Johan Giesecke of the European Centre for Disease Protection and Control (ECDC) was speaking after chief veterinary and medical officers of the 25 EU nations met to discuss protecting European workers in contact with poultry....Reminiscences of Chief Justice’s Call for Quality Medical Educatio
Feb. 24: The Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph has expressed the need for quality medical education in the country// and that the government must not leave any stone unturned to weed out black sheep institutions. According to the Chief Justice, this is a matter of grave concern to the society, to witness the dwindling nature of medical education. The educationists, profes...Joining The Military 'My Best Move' - US Army Nursing Chief
The Major General of US army Gale Pollock was inspired to become a nurse after she saw how the military treated her elder brother after he was wounded in Vietnam. Thirty years down the line, she heads the US Army Nurse Corps. // "I decided to join the army when I was a teenager. I had a big brother who was injured in Vietnam and the army medical department took very good care of him....Making Budhia run 65 km absolutely cruel,says Infosys chief
Infosys Chairman N R Narayana Murthy today slammed as 'absolutely cruel' making wonder kid Budhia Singh run 65 kms to set a record//. 'It is cruel. It is absolutely cruel. We are doing a diservice to that child,' Murthy told reporters at the Infosys campus as he endorsed the view of former athlete P T Usha who called the exercise 'wrong.' 'We should be careful about burning out our chi...