New Cabinet-Level Reentry Council Aims to Save Tax Dollars and Make Communities Safer. On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder convened the inaugural meeting of the Cabinet‐level “Reentry Council” in Washington to identify and to advance effective public safety and prisoner reentry strategies. (Clockwise, seated at the table: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; […]

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National Cancer Institute (NCI) announces plans to reinvigorate clinical trials. Consolidation of cooperative group program is designed to bring enhanced efficiencies to oncological sciences The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has announced major changes to be made in the long-established Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program that conducts many of the nationwide trials of new cancer therapies.  […]

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Study: Mining Is a Major Driver of Sub-Saharan Africa’s TB Epidemic A study by Mark Lurie of Brown University and an international team of researchers has developed the first statistical evidence linking mining to high rates of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa. The exponential rise in TB in the region had been attributed to higher rates […]

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