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Johns Hopkins Faculty Members Awarded 2009 White House Early Career Awards
Pablo A. Celnik, M.D., an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, 32, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, are among the 100 winners of this year"s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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American Chemical Society Praises Nomination Of Collins As National Institutes Of Health Director
The President of the American Chemical Society, Thomas H. Lane, Ph.D., issued the following statement on President Obama"s nomination of Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
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Group Banned From Teaching Abstinence-Only Program In Sonoma County, Calif., Public Schools
Free to Be, a federally-funded organization in California that teaches abstinence-only sex education to students, is at the center of a debate with education officials and others in Sonoma County over whether their curriculum is in compliance with state rules requiring that sexual health education programs in public schools be "balanced" and include information on sexually transmitted infections such as HIV and contraception, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports. Sonoma County Office of Education officials in May banned the group from giving any further presentations on public school campuses, citing state law. Free to Be, as well as several school superintendents from around the county, said they are currently reviewing their legal options (Benefield, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 6/7).
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VOA News Examines Malaria In Southern Sudan

VOA News examines malaria in southern Sudan. In the region, malaria is "widespread" and accounts for "up to 30 percent of all diseases treated by health facilities." It is the "number one killer of children in southern Sudan," though there are "no reliable statistics on the number in southern Sudan who suffer, or die from, malaria," VOA News reports. After more than two decades of war, "southern Sudan was granted semi-autonomous status for a six-year period" - beginning in 2005 - "until a more permanent solution can be worked out," writes VOA News. The post-war administration is "grappling" with how to develop good health care services in a "vast, re-poor area that is only now beginning to be developed," according to the news service. People who have been diagnosed with malaria sometimes have to walk to the market to buy malaria drugs because drugs and other vital supplies sometimes do not reach the clinic during the rainy season, said Paulino Pitia, acting county medical officer. Last year, the health aid group PSI and the government of southern Sudan distributed one million insecticide-treated nets [ITNs]. As a result, "[a]necdotal evidence" shows that "there are less people presenting in health facilities with fever and suspected malaria," Marcie Cook, country representative for PSI, said. The government of southern Sudan plans to distribute 3 million additional ITNs by the end of this year with support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and PSI. "Health activists say continual support from the Global Fund and donors is needed to diagnose, treat and prevent further deaths from malaria," VOA News writes (Majtenyi, VOA News, 6/24). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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