Who owns your genes? Plus the end of Climategate, drilling is not boring, smashing success, and more foolishness
Health care lives, but what about health care journalism? The fossil finger writes, not always accurately. News about flus and Free Nature News!
NASW is pleased to announce recipients of the second round of its Career Development Grants, which support education, training or other activities intended to help established science writers continue or advance their careers in today's rapidly changing media environment.
Looking for ways to cover science on a tight travel budget? For the third year in a row, the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings invites NASW members who are working journalists or freelancers attending on assignment from a media outlet to apply for travel funding to attend its meetings of Nobel Laureates.
Spring chemistry, plus blogging chemistry and brain awareness. Health care at last? Oh where, oh where, has my little dog come from?
Depression, bad and/or good. Plus environmental blog mortality, health care debate morality, research paper absurdity, fetal cosmetology
Health careless still, Olympic science, how to convert: The Obama administration's health care summit of yesterday (Thursday) is history, although the analysis will doubtless go on and on and on.
BY DAVID LAVINE
To prevent disease and improve health, public policy should acknowledge issues not traditionally considered part of health care. Those include city planning, business and media, according to scientists who spoke on 20 February at the 2010 AAAS meeting in San Diego.
President Mariette DiChristina called the meeting to order at 4:10 and established that a quorum existed. She explained that the purpose of the meeting was to vote on the proposed amendments to the Constitution and reviewed the resolution and three voting options. She said that documents from the NASW archives reflected the growth and evolution of the organization and that the update of the Constitution was part of moving toward a larger and more professional organization.
