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2019-05-09 – The House Appropriations Committee this afternoon amended and approved its FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill, 30-23. Labor-HHS Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) noted this spending bill has not been the first “out of the gate” in years. The committee adopted 6 of 17 amendments…
2019-05-03 – The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved the ABPN’s proposal to accredit fellowship programs in the new subspecialty of Neurocritical Care at a February 2019 meeting. The medical specialty of Neurocritical Care (NCC) is devoted to the comprehensive multisystem care…
2019-04-23 – The conversation around disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI) in the medical community continues to be a dynamic one, particularly as transparency initiatives like the Open Payments database from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and ProPublica's Dollars for Docs make…
2019-04-19 – "Parkinsonism is a more general term we use to describe anyone who has the signs or symptoms of Parkinson's disease," says Dr. David K. Simon, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical…
2019-04-18 – Tissue support system preserves limited function in an isolated postmortem animal brain. Read more here: NIH BRAIN Initiative tool may transform how scientists study brain structure and function
2019-04-16 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, and the directors of NIAID, NCI, NIGMS, NIDDK, NIA, and NIDA April 11 testified on the fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget proposal before the Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee. Read testimony here: NIH Director Testifies…
2019-04-15 – A neurologist explains the reality behind a classic soap opera twist: amnesia. Read more here: Would Zapping Away a Foe’s Memory Like in Jane the VirginReally Work?
2019-04-12 – Pfizer Global Medical Grants (GMG) supports the global healthcare community’s independent initiatives (e.g., research, quality improvement or education) to improve patient outcomes in areas of unmet medical need that are aligned with Pfizer’s medical and/or scientific strategies. Pfizer’s GMG…
2019-04-12 – The goal of this study was to refine our understanding of disease risk attributable to common genetic variation in SNCA, a major locus in Parkinson disease, with potential implications for clinical trials targeting α‐synuclein. We aimed to dissect the multiple independent association signals,…
2019-03-28 – The White House March 18 released more details of its FY 2020 budget proposal. The Major Savings and Reforms document calls for, as in previous years, reducing the salary cap on NIH grants from $189,600 (executive level II) to $154,300 (executive level V). In the accompanying congressional…