NASW news
In keeping with our commitment to transparency and free exchange of information, NASW has joined with the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and others in urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to rescind a policy that currently requires notification and official approval before FDA officials are allowed to speak with journalists.
Oct. 31, 2009Kevin Gurney, an associate professor at Purdue University, showed high-resolution animated graphics of the past, present and future of climate change at CASW's 2009 New Horizons in Science briefing at the University of Texas at Austin. Unfortunately, his pictures suggest that carbon emissions may soon look a lot worse.
Oct. 27, 2009Self-described as a science writer and the Bush Administration's worst nightmare, physician Bruce M. Psaty told CASW conference attendees what it is like to blow the whistle on the Federal Drug Administration's drug approval process.
Oct. 27, 2009Imagine a team of researchers in the U.S. able to remotely track a deployed soldier's reactions to combat stress in Iraq with the accuracy to determine susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the ability to administer quick preventative treatments. That is just one of the potential implications of Michael Telch and his team's research at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with 184 volunteer soldiers from Fort Hood.
Oct. 26, 2009Unmask plagiarism in PubMed by flagging similar texts. Assess disease risk by finding repeated DNA segments. These are just two applications for new analytical tools from the lab of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center computational biologist Harold "Skip" Garner.
Oct. 26, 2009So you finally got around to building a website to showcase your science writing business. Only it just sits there — nobody ever visits or calls. What to do?
Oct. 26, 2009You have entered a college student's room. As your eyes scan from left to right, you are shocked to see a neatly made bed, folded laundry, and books not only in the bookcase, but alphabetically arranged. Even the slippers — slippers! — have been placed at a right angle to the bed. Ah, but there it is, sitting in a corner, a beautiful, bright blue bong inside a plastic crate.
Oct. 24, 2009No one showed up in their pajamas — though one West Coast writer had suggested it — as about 100 participants arrived at 7 a.m. CDT (5 a.m. PDT) Saturday, Oct. 17, to sign up for the NASW's first-ever Power Pitch with Top Editors.
Oct. 23, 2009