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White House Begins to Map Course toward Bio-Based Economy
Politicians and pundits clogged the airwaves last year with rhetoric about the state of the nation's economy. Amid this noise, a few economic policy initiatives did begin to take shape. For instance, last fall, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a request for comments on a draft policy to stimulate the bioeconomy. Scientists have long asserted that research is an investment that yields economic prosperity. A growing number of scientists and engineers have more recently advised that the biological sciences are poised to inspire transformative discoveries that can solve persistent problems ...
Source: Washington Watch - January 22, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Robert E. Gropp Source Type: news

Community Colleges Giving Students a Framework for STEM Careers
Over the coming decade, our country will need one million more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals than was originally projected. That is the conclusion of a February 2012 report, Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf), presented to President Obama by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The report stresses the importance of exciting early on students who are potenti...
Source: Eye on Education - January 22, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Susan Musante Source Type: news

Short Takes
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has announced that she will step down after leading the agency for four years. Although Jackson's tenure was often fraught with tense relations with congressional lawmakers--especially over climate change--the agency created the first greenhouse gas regulations under her leadership. The nation needs one million addition graduates with an undergraduate degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM), according to a new goal set by the Obama Administration. The additional graduates will be produced over the next decade. The need for additional STEM-...
Source: Public Policy Reports - January 22, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news

Deadline Looms for Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
Lawmakers are running out of time to seal a deal to prevent tax hikes and spending cuts. With only hours left before the start of 2013, the policies that comprise the fiscal cliff will start to go into effect as soon as tomorrow unless legislation is enacted immediately. Congressional leaders and the President worked through the weekend to try to negotiate a compromise. Although President Obama and Speaker Boehner had been the central players in the negotiations in recent weeks, Vice President Biden and Senator Minority Leader McConnell began their own talks over the weekend. Their negotiations continued through Monday mor...
Source: Public Policy Reports - January 22, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Stem Cell Case
The end may be drawing near for a lawsuit that has threatened for years to stop government-funded research that involves human embryonic stem cells. On 7 January, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it declined to review the case, which was filed by two medical researchers who claimed they were disadvantaged by the Obama Administration’s stem cell policy because they study induced pluripotent stem cells (stem cells derived from adult cells). The case was dismissed in July 2011 by a federal judge, but the plaintiffs chose to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. In 2010, federally funded intramural stem cell res...
Source: Public Policy Reports - January 22, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news

Learn About Community Colleges' Response to the PCAST Report
Over the coming decade, our country will need one million more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals than was originally projected. That is the conclusion of a February 2012 report, *Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics *([www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf](http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf)), presented to President Obama by the President’s Council of Advisors on...
Source: Education Reports - January 22, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Tags: September/October Source Type: news

SGR Repeal to Get Hard Look in New Congress
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Repealing the sustainable growth rate formula for physician reimbursement under Medicare will likely be a high priority for the new leader of a key congressional health subcommittee.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

ER Visits Common After Hospital Stay (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Nearly one-fifth of hospital patients returned for acute care within 30 days of discharge, with emergency room visits accounting for 40% of those encounters, a large multistate study found.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Gun Violence Plan: Mental Health Experts Cautiously OptimisticGun Violence Plan: Mental Health Experts Cautiously Optimistic
Mental health experts are weighing in on President Obama's newly signed executive actions to curb gun violence, especially those that focus on plans to increase access to mental health care. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Kids' Hospital Readmissions Vary Widely (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Readmission rates vary significantly across pediatric acute care hospitals, and multiple patient and disease factors contribute, a retrospective study suggested.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

The Citizen Science of Climate Change: We are not bystanders
Superstorm Sandy prior to the 2012 Presidential election put climate change on the mind of many voters. Earlier this month, a Federal Advisory Committee of 13 collaborating agencies released a Draft Climate Assessment Report for public review . The data show the climate is already changing: rising sea-level, ocean acidification, damage to infrastructure, and impacts on human health, water resources, and agriculture. Because the data make it hard to remain optimistic, many were thankful to hear Obama say at his inauguration, "We'll respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our c...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Technology,More Science Source Type: research

In Second Inaugural, Obama Makes Climate A Priority
President Obama pulled out a surprise in his inaugural address. After barely mentioning climate change in his campaign, he put it on his short list of priorities for his second term. Experts believe he'll use the EPA to ramp up efforts to reduce greenhouse gases from power plants.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - January 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Big Hospitals to Be Biggest Losers of Federal $$ (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Large, teaching, and safety-net hospitals are those most likely to be penalized for failing to reduce hospital readmissions, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Gingrich: Attack ACA Bit by Bit
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Congressional Republicans should step back and examine smaller aspects of the Affordable Care Act to change or repeal, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

NIH launches blog on behavioral and social sciences research
NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) launches The Connector, a new blog featuring OBSSR Director Dr. Robert M. Kaplan’s commentary, Director Connection.
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge to EPA Rulemaking
By Jonathan StempelWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to consider reducing the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to set air quality standards, leaving intact a tough new limit on sulfur dioxide emissions in a victory for the Obama administration.Without comment, the court decided not to hear an appeal by Grupo Mexico SAB's Asarco LLC unit of a lower court ruling that upholds a 2010 EPA rule limiting sulfur dioxide in the air to 75 parts per billion over one hour.Short-term exposure to sulfur dioxide has been linked to respiratory problems. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Health,Energy Technology,Clean Air Policy,Environment,Society Source Type: research

ARDS Numbers After Trauma May Be on the Wane (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The incidence of post-trauma acute respiratory distress syndrome declined over a decade, researchers found, but mortality rates remained the same, researchers reported here.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

How Would Obama Address Climate Change?
President Barack Obama made a poignant comment about the need to address climate change , during his inauguration speech on Monday. Commentators everywhere noted how the remark stood out, and also asked what specific measures the second-term President might actually recommend. Scientific American has some answers, based on an exclusive written response that Obama’s campaign sent to us just before the November 2012 election. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Climate Source Type: research

Africa: Genetically Engineered Foods - Has Barack Obama Betrayed Africa?
[The Star]"Living in a Monsanto Nation, there can be no such a thing as 'co-existence.' It is impossible to coexist with a reckless industry that endangers public health, bribes public officials, corrupts scientists, manipulates the media, destroys biodiversity, kills the soil, pollutes the environment, tortures and poisons animals, destabilizes the climate, and economically enslaves the world's 1.5 billion seed-saving small farmers. It's time to take down the Biotech Behemoth, before the living web of biodiversity
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 22, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Love for Sale
Why do fools fall in love and why do completely rational people spend a fortune on a wedding? I went to a wedding expo to find out.read more
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - January 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laurie Essig, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Boston bridal bootcamp brides brighter future brighter tomorrow economic actor economists homo economicus honeymoon hope hopelessness hopes and dreams inauguration innauguration obama perfect body Source Type: news

Obama Trumps Congress and Orders Research into Gun Violence
From Nature magazine. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Health,Ethics,Everyday Science,More Science,Health,Society & Policy Source Type: research

What Can Obama Do about Climate Change?
Climate change appears to have climbed to the summit of policy promises yesterday when President Obama vowed in his second inaugural address to confront carbon emissions, because anything less would "betray our children." [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Society Policy,Everyday Science,Climate,Energy Sustainability,Environment,More Science Source Type: research

Why presidents' hair turns gray
Bill Clinton did it. So did George W. Bush. Ronald Reagan kind of did it and it looks like President Barack Obama is doing it, too. What do all these men have in common besides holding the highest office in the United States? Their hair turned gray during their presidencies.
Source: WDSU.com - Health - January 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Shades of gray: What happens to presidents' hair
Bill Clinton did it. So did George W. Bush. Ronald Reagan kind of did it and it looks like President Barack Obama is doing it, too.
Source: CNN.com - Health - January 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Will Obamacare Make Obama a Great President?
The Vice President called it a “big deal.”Paul Krugman concurs, placing health reform at the center of President Obama’s “Big Deal.” Mr. Obama seems preoccupied with achieving presidential greatness in the eyes of historians and Americans. Indeed, he
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 22, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Chris Conover Source Type: news

The Biggest Deals of 2012: Mergers, Acquisitions in Arkansas Make for a Busy Year
Deal-making activity in Arkansas picked up in 2012 over 2011 levels, with the number of mergers and acquisitions believed to be valued at $9 million or more rising to 80 last year compared with 70 the year before.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

A New Presidential Term for Climate Change
President Obama's second term has begun with a strong stance in support of a U.S. transition to a clean energy economy. In the second-term President's inauguration speech yesterday, he zeroed in on climate change and its implications for future generations. Weaving together themes from the U.S. Constitution and the 2009 carbon cap-and-trade debates, President Obama stated that: "We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. So...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 22, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability Source Type: research

Many Americans Back Nicotine Restrictions in Cigarettes: Survey
Nearly half of Americans would support a government-mandated reduction of nicotine levels in cigarettes, according to a new study.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Melamine Tableware May Leach Chemical: Study
Melamine, a chemical that sickened and killed babies in China when it tainted baby formula, can also leach off tableware and into food, according to a Taiwan study.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 22, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Changes in FDA enforcement activities following changes in federal administration: the case of regulatory letters released to pharmaceutical companies
Conclusions: Most regulatory letters released by FDA headquarters were related to marketing and advertising activities of pharmaceutical companies. The number of regulatory letters was highest during the second Clinton administration, diminished during the Bush administrations, and increased again during the Obama administration. A further assessment of the impact of changes in federal administration on the enforcement activities of the FDA is required.
Source: BMC Health Services Research - January 22, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Diane NguyenEnrique Seoane-VazquezRosa Rodriguez-MonguioMichael Montagne Source Type: research

More Kids Seem to Miss Vaccine Dates (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Almost half of infants and children missed a vaccination schedule by at least 1 day, and the rate of undervaccination increased over time, according to a matched cohort study.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Obama Pledges to Address Climate, Energy
From Pres. Barack Obama’s second inaugural address, January 21, 2013: [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 21, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,History of Science,Society Policy,More Science,Green Living,Alternative Energy Technology,Alternative Energy Technology,Clean Air Policy,Climate,Ecology,Environment,Energy Source Type: research

Family Medicine Can Play Role in Stemming Violence, AAFP Tells Administration
According to the AAFP, the issue of gun violence in the United States is a complex problem that necessitates the involvement of family physicians and other health care professionals who focus on preventive health, and the AAFP told the administration that in a Jan. 17 letter to President Obama. Obama signed 23 executive orders during a White House ceremony on Jan. 16 as part of a broad plan to tighten and overhaul the nation's gun laws in response to several mass shootings in 2012.
Source: AAFP Government and Medicine - January 21, 2013 Category: Practice Management Source Type: news

Sickle Cell Test Gets NCAA OK Despite Docs
(MedPage Today) -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association has approved mandatory confirmation of sickle cell trait status in Division III student athletes over the objections of the American Society of Hematology.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Obama returns to 'collective action' theme... Atari files for bankruptcy... NBA's Kings are sold... MN man dies in ND fracking accident... Oprah rides Lance's admission to success — VIDEO
Business news from around the Web: National Obama returns to 'collective action' theme in his inaugural address (The Business Journals)Small-business owner fires two for supporting Obama (Fox)BP confirms four workers are missing in Algeria (Houston Business Journal)Atari files for bankruptcy, but it's not 'game over' (PC World)Land trust scams on the rise (Fox)NBA's Sacramento Kings sold to group led by hedge-fund investor, team likely moving to Seattle (Sacramento Business Journal)Hospitals super-sizing…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - January 21, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ed Stych Source Type: research

Travel group will study if vacation is good for your health
Ever uncork a bottle of red wine with the thought, "Besides, it's good for my heart," or cite antioxidants as a reason to indulge in dark chocolate? Then the U.S. travel industry has a campaign designed just for you — and, perhaps, for Orlando and...
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Barack Obama inauguration speech: a greatest hits of rhetorical tricks
The president gave a smash-hits selection of oratorical devices, from emphatic anaphora to substantial synthetonBarack Obama's second inaugural, as far as rhetoric goes, was the equivalent of a greatest hits album knocked out in time for Christmas. All his favourite oratorical devices were on display, and all at once, as if someone had knocked a candle into the firework box.At a sentence-by-sentence level, it was filled with a device to which Obama is practically addicted: syntheton. That is, never say one thing when you can inflate the sentence with two: "effort and determination", "passion and dedication", "security and ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 21, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Sam Leith Tags: United States Barack Obama Analysis World news guardian.co.uk US politics Language Obama inauguration Science Source Type: news

Medical Services Geared Up for Inauguration
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- As the nation's attention was focused on the second inauguration of President Obama, medical teams here were ready behind the scenes to handle any emergencies that might crop up.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Obama Highlights Health Issues in Inaugural Speech
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Healthcare received a couple of direct mentions from President Obama in his inauguration speech Monday, when, recognizing the need to trim costs, he defended the principles behind Medicare and Medicaid.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

New HIPAA Rules Fortify Patient Privacy
(MedPage Today) -- Addressing 15 years of digital advances in health record information, HHS released stronger rules and protections governing patient privacy last week.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Obama returns to 'collective action' theme in his inaugural address
President Barack Obama's second inaugural address was short, just like President Abraham Lincoln's back in 1865. While Lincoln called on Americans to "bind up the nation's wounds" in the wake of the Civil War, Obama said it will take "collective action" to meet the challenges of our time. "For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias," Obama said from the…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - January 21, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Kent Hoover Source Type: research

CMPA's medico-legal insights now online for medical students
Source: cma.ca - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Tags: cma.ca Healthcare News Source Type: news

Deal-Making in Arkansas Picks Up in '12
Deal-making activity in Arkansas picked up in 2012 over 2011 levels, with the number of mergers and acquisitions believed to be valued at $9 million or more rising to 80 last year compared with 70 the year before.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Much must happen for team-based care to succeed
AMA Leader Commentary - A message to all physicians about current events in medical practice
Source: American Medical News - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Help on avoiding opioid prescribing pitfalls
The American Medical Association offers free webinars to aid doctors in effectively providing pain medicine to patients and in preventing abuse of the drugs.
Source: American Medical News - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

New GME model strives to keep doctors in underserved areas
Funded by the ACA, it offers medical residents the opportunity to practice primary care as part of an interprofessional team.
Source: American Medical News - PROFESSION - January 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news