Wednesday
AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom
the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom. Scholarship on academic freedom—and on its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining—is typically scattered across a wide range of disciplines. People who want to keep up with the field thus face a difficult task. Moreover, there is no one place to track the developing international discussion about academic freedom and its collateral issues. Edited collections and special issues of journals have helped fill the need for many years, but there has been no single journal devoted to the subject. Now there is. It is published by the organization most responsible for defining academic freedom, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Drug & Alcohol Dependence (CPDD journal) Volume 107, Issue 1 (1 February 2010): NIDA History
"The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is the fulfillment of a long frustrated dream of bringing the highest levels of science and the full power of health-care to bear on the intransigent problem of addiction to drugs of abuse. NIDA sprang to life in September 1973, built from three pieces—the White House SpecialAction Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), plus the Division of Narcotic Abuse and DrugAddiction(DNADA) and the Addiction Research Center (ARC), both of which had been parts of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "
-Bob DuPont
NIDA 35th anniversary papers
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National Institute on Drug Abuse at its first 35 yearsPages 80-81Robert L. DuPont Preview PDF (83 K) Related Articles
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Present at the creation—NIDA's first five yearsPages 82-87 Preview PDF (144 K) Related Articles
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Bill Pollin Era at NIDA (1979-1985)Pages 88-91 Preview PDF (111 K) Related Articles
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The Highs and Lows of My Years at NIDA (1986-1992)Pages 92-95 Preview PDF (100 K) Related Articles
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The Road from ADAMHA to NIH: Reflections on NIDA (1992 - 1994)Pages 96-98 Preview PDF (99 K) Related Articles
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NIDA in the 90's: (1994-2001)Pages 99-101 Preview PDF (95 K) Related Articles
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NIDA 35-Year Anniversary: Past Lessons, Present Accomplishments and Future Challenges (2001-2003)Pages 102-105 Preview PDF (102 K) Related Articles
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Celebrating the History of NIDA (2003-present)Pages 106-107 Preview PDF (91 K) Related Articles
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The History of a Public Science: How the Addiction Research Center Became the NIDA Intramural Research ProgramPages 108-112 Preview PDF (135 K) Related Articles
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How NIDA Became Interested in Precise Nuances of Injection BehaviorsPages 113-115 Preview PDF (124 K) Related Articles
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NIDA, This is Your LifePages 116-118 Preview PDF (95 K) Related Articles
-Bob DuPont
NIDA 35th anniversary papers
13.
National Institute on Drug Abuse at its first 35 yearsPages 80-81Robert L. DuPont Preview PDF (83 K) Related Articles
14.
Present at the creation—NIDA's first five yearsPages 82-87 Preview PDF (144 K) Related Articles
15.
Bill Pollin Era at NIDA (1979-1985)Pages 88-91 Preview PDF (111 K) Related Articles
16.
The Highs and Lows of My Years at NIDA (1986-1992)Pages 92-95 Preview PDF (100 K) Related Articles
17.
The Road from ADAMHA to NIH: Reflections on NIDA (1992 - 1994)Pages 96-98 Preview PDF (99 K) Related Articles
18.
NIDA in the 90's: (1994-2001)Pages 99-101 Preview PDF (95 K) Related Articles
19.
NIDA 35-Year Anniversary: Past Lessons, Present Accomplishments and Future Challenges (2001-2003)Pages 102-105 Preview PDF (102 K) Related Articles
20.
Celebrating the History of NIDA (2003-present)Pages 106-107 Preview PDF (91 K) Related Articles
21.
The History of a Public Science: How the Addiction Research Center Became the NIDA Intramural Research ProgramPages 108-112 Preview PDF (135 K) Related Articles
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How NIDA Became Interested in Precise Nuances of Injection BehaviorsPages 113-115 Preview PDF (124 K) Related Articles
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NIDA, This is Your LifePages 116-118 Preview PDF (95 K) Related Articles
Tuesday
Online Resources for Science Teachers
What a Great Site: Online Resources for Teachers
There are many excellent on-line education resources for Biotechnology and Genetics. Here are a few to get you started…
Access Excellence is the National Health Museum’s site for “health and bioscience teaching and learning”. Many ideas and interactive activities.http://www.accessexcellence.org/
The website for the American Society of Human Genetics has a list of educational resources and descriptions of careers in genetics.http://www.ashg.org/education/
BioEd Online: This website includes streaming video presentations, slide sets and lesson plans, along with a continuous science news feed from Nature, and free on-line web based workshopshttp://www.bioedonline.org/
The EXCITE (Excellence in Curriculum Integration Through Teaching Epidemiology) program from the Centers for Disease Control is really about epidemiology, however this includes some interesting classroom materials for teachers, including middle school science curriculum about scientific method, statistics, microbiology and disease transmission. The main CDC website (http://www.cdc.gov/) has lots of great disease information also. You can get short, understandable summaries of major disease outbreaks in the US – a good way to keep curriculum relevant.http://www.cdc.gov/excite
Colorado State University provides Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide, including articles, slide presentations and assignments to facilitate learning about transgenic crops. http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/index.html
The Dolan Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor provides a wealth of resources for educators. These include on-line laboratories, free-access databases (Bioservers) used by scientists and educators world-wide, and the wonderful Biology Animation Library (Great PCR animation!) – found under the Resources section. You may have to download free software from Macromedia to run the animations, the Dolan site links you to the downloads.http://www.dnalc.org/
The Genetics Education Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center has LOTS of lesson-plans, including a simulated genetic counseling session.http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
The Genetic Science Learning Center web site at the University of Utah has a wide selection of teacher resources including virtual labs.http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides an opportunity for kids and adults to ask biology questions.http://www.askascientist.org/
The National Human Genome Research Institute has an incredible list of on-line educational resources links.http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/Education/
The National Institute of Health curriculum supplement series has extensive materials in various formats on current areas of research including: Using Technology to Study Cellular and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cancer, and Human Genetic Variation, among others.http://science.education.nih.gov/
The National Institute of Standards and Technology website is an excellent source of information about short tandem repeats used in forensic DNA analysis and human identity testing.http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/strbase
The National Science Teachers Association organizes URLs by grade level, content using the National Science Education Standards. It also includes lesson plans and other teacher support materials.http://sciguides.nsta.org/
Oklahoma City Community College offers an incredible web resource designed for high school teachers teaching about biotechnology! The College received grant money to develop this extensive site organizing/categorizing Biotech Internet resources, including on-line labs, curriculum, etc. CHECK IT OUT!http://www.okc.cc.ok.us/biotech
Promega CorporationLinks for educational units and the company's the training support program (50% discount) are provided. In addition, the tabs at the top are useful too; “Resources” includes many technical service resources such as protocols, MSDS sheets, “Profiles in DNA” (with interesting descriptions of forensic applications) and even training videos. The “Products” tab is useful for ordering.http://www.promega.com/education/
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln Ag Biosafety Education Center website provides good background information for teachers on the biotechnology of transgenic plants. Includes links to several lesson plans.http://agbiosafety.unl.edu/education.shtml
Virginia Commonwealth University has compiled the best video segments (to download for free) from the PBS series “Secrets of the Sequence”, along with accompanying lesson plans.http://www.vcu.edu/lifesci/sosq
Why FilesA Wisconsin Resource! The Why Files is a free online magazine from UW that explores the science behind the headlines (example: Stem Cells). It includes Teacher Activity Pages and resources. A new article is featured each week.http://www.whyfiles.org/
There are many excellent on-line education resources for Biotechnology and Genetics. Here are a few to get you started…
Access Excellence is the National Health Museum’s site for “health and bioscience teaching and learning”. Many ideas and interactive activities.http://www.accessexcellence.org/
The website for the American Society of Human Genetics has a list of educational resources and descriptions of careers in genetics.http://www.ashg.org/education/
BioEd Online: This website includes streaming video presentations, slide sets and lesson plans, along with a continuous science news feed from Nature, and free on-line web based workshopshttp://www.bioedonline.org/
The EXCITE (Excellence in Curriculum Integration Through Teaching Epidemiology) program from the Centers for Disease Control is really about epidemiology, however this includes some interesting classroom materials for teachers, including middle school science curriculum about scientific method, statistics, microbiology and disease transmission. The main CDC website (http://www.cdc.gov/) has lots of great disease information also. You can get short, understandable summaries of major disease outbreaks in the US – a good way to keep curriculum relevant.http://www.cdc.gov/excite
Colorado State University provides Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide, including articles, slide presentations and assignments to facilitate learning about transgenic crops. http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/index.html
The Dolan Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor provides a wealth of resources for educators. These include on-line laboratories, free-access databases (Bioservers) used by scientists and educators world-wide, and the wonderful Biology Animation Library (Great PCR animation!) – found under the Resources section. You may have to download free software from Macromedia to run the animations, the Dolan site links you to the downloads.http://www.dnalc.org/
The Genetics Education Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center has LOTS of lesson-plans, including a simulated genetic counseling session.http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
The Genetic Science Learning Center web site at the University of Utah has a wide selection of teacher resources including virtual labs.http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides an opportunity for kids and adults to ask biology questions.http://www.askascientist.org/
The National Human Genome Research Institute has an incredible list of on-line educational resources links.http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/Education/
The National Institute of Health curriculum supplement series has extensive materials in various formats on current areas of research including: Using Technology to Study Cellular and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cancer, and Human Genetic Variation, among others.http://science.education.nih.gov/
The National Institute of Standards and Technology website is an excellent source of information about short tandem repeats used in forensic DNA analysis and human identity testing.http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/strbase
The National Science Teachers Association organizes URLs by grade level, content using the National Science Education Standards. It also includes lesson plans and other teacher support materials.http://sciguides.nsta.org/
Oklahoma City Community College offers an incredible web resource designed for high school teachers teaching about biotechnology! The College received grant money to develop this extensive site organizing/categorizing Biotech Internet resources, including on-line labs, curriculum, etc. CHECK IT OUT!http://www.okc.cc.ok.us/biotech
Promega CorporationLinks for educational units and the company's the training support program (50% discount) are provided. In addition, the tabs at the top are useful too; “Resources” includes many technical service resources such as protocols, MSDS sheets, “Profiles in DNA” (with interesting descriptions of forensic applications) and even training videos. The “Products” tab is useful for ordering.http://www.promega.com/education/
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln Ag Biosafety Education Center website provides good background information for teachers on the biotechnology of transgenic plants. Includes links to several lesson plans.http://agbiosafety.unl.edu/education.shtml
Virginia Commonwealth University has compiled the best video segments (to download for free) from the PBS series “Secrets of the Sequence”, along with accompanying lesson plans.http://www.vcu.edu/lifesci/sosq
Why FilesA Wisconsin Resource! The Why Files is a free online magazine from UW that explores the science behind the headlines (example: Stem Cells). It includes Teacher Activity Pages and resources. A new article is featured each week.http://www.whyfiles.org/
Sunday
Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Products (Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs, and Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size)
From: FDA MedWatch [mailto:fda@service.
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:21 PM
To: Trachtenberg, Alan (IHS/HQE)
Subject: MedWatch - Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Products: Reports of permanent loss of sense of smell with use of these nasal gel or swab products
Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Products (Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs, and Cold Remedy Swabs, Kids Size)
Audience: Consumers
FDA notified consumers and healthcare professionals to discontinue use of three Zicam Nasal Gel/Nasal Swab products sold over-the-counter as cold remedies because they are associated with the loss of sense of smell that may be long-lasting or permanent. The FDA has received more than 130 reports of loss of sense of smell associated with the use of the three Zicam products. In these reports, many people who experienced a loss of smell said the condition occurred with the first dose; others reported a loss of the sense of smell after multiple uses of the products. People who have experienced a loss of sense of smell or other problems after use of the affected Zicam products should contact their health care professional. The loss of sense of smell can adversely affect a person’s quality of life, and can limit the ability to detect the smell of gas or smoke or other signs of danger in the environment.
Read the complete MedWatch 2009 Safety Summary, including links to the Public Health Advisory and Consumer Update page, at:
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Health Affairs Special on Mental Health-May/June 2009 - Volume 28, Number 3 Mental Health Care: Better, Not Best
May/June 2009 - Volume 28, Number 3
Mental Health Care: Better, Not Best
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