Muara Teweh!

BY Chang Cai
Contributing Writer DailyCal.org

In February, a local hospital will begin testing emergency room patients for HIV with the help of a grant aimed at decreasing the number of infected people who do not realize they have the disease.

Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center will offer a same-day screening using either a blood or tissue sample to emergency room patients who say they are HIV negative, or that they are unsure about their status.

The center will receive $220,000 to fund the program at two emergency departments in Berkeley and Oakland, said hospital spokesperson Carolyn Kemp.

The funding represents one-third of a grant awarded in October by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to three Bay Area facilities. San Francisco General Hospital and the Alameda County Medical Center will use the money to expand their existing emergency room HIV screening services. » Read more after the jump →

Country Women’s Association Cowra branch is looking for applicants for the Medical Educational Grant, to be taken up for 2008.

This grant is open to those students who live in the south west group area and are currently studying any health-related tertiary studies - but they must be in at least the second year of study.

Any student who wants to apply needs to obtain an application form from the secretary of their local CWA branch in the south west group.

The branches involved include Binalong, Boorowa, Canimbla, Cowra, Cowra Evening, Galong, Grenfell, Grenfell Evening, Harden, Milvale, Morongla, Quandialla and Young.

The grant is for $4000 and applications must arrive at Cowra by January 16, 2008, complete with relevant documents. » Read more after the jump →

A father and son reconnecting on an Alaskan river. A biography of a river running legend. An investigation into one of North America’s worst mountaineering disasters.

These are some of the themes found among the winners of the 2007 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA).

The winners of this annual award program represent some of the finest outdoor writing and artwork were announced Nov. 14. The NOBA Foundation, Idaho State University and the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education sponsor the awards program.

Awards are given in 10 individual categories.

“The overall quality of the entries was very high this year,” said Ron Watters, a professor emeritus at ISU and the chairman of the National Outdoor Book Awards. “Consequently, the judges awarded two winners in several of the categories.” » Read more after the jump →

Netherlands

Research & Teaching

The Sub-atomic physics research group is a part of the Faculty of Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
The Vrije Universiteit is a partner of the Dutch National Institute for High-Energy Physics NIKHEF.
The research group participants in the CERN experiment LHCb and the SLAC experiment BaBar.
The HiSPARC (High School Project on Astrophysics Research with Cosmics) project is a cooperation between the local schools and universities.

More Information visit link below:
http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org/institutes/inst_nl_amsterdam2_en.htm

Living in Amsterdam
In the Netherlands the Euro is the official coin as in many other European cities. Prices are more or less the same as in Denmark although the cost of apartments tend to be a bit higher while drinks are less expensive.

The United Kingdom Engineering Council has given the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT) a full accreditation to offer its engineering qualifications through City and Guilds of London, the body that runs the UK Engineering Council Examinations worldwide.

The accreditation, the first to be given to a Ghanaian University, puts AIT at par with leading technological universities offering undergraduate and post-graduate engineering programmes, a statement issued by AIT said.

AIT, which is also called University of the Future, said Ghanaians could now run courses, register candidates and conduct the examinations on all the UK Engineering Council programmes.

These include Engineering Council (EC) Engineering Certificate programmes (equivalent to 1st year of a British Bachelor in Engineering degree programme), Graduate Diploma (equivalent to British Bachelor in Engineering) and Post-Graduate Diploma (equivalent to a British Masters in Engineering). » Read more after the jump →

The American Cancer Society 2008 New York State Golf Pass is now available for the upcoming golfing season. The book features free and discounted golfing, greens fees and cart rental from more than 110 golf facilities in upstate New York.

Proceeds from the $35 book support the American Cancer Society programs of research, education and local patient services.

For more information, call (800) ACS-2345 and mention the New York State Golf Pass, or go to www.cancer.org/golfpass. The pass also is available for purchase at:

Broome County:

* American Cancer Society, 13 Beech St., Johnson City (after Dec. 10)

* Boscov’s Department Store, Court Street, Binghamton » Read more after the jump →

The latest biological, clinical and social research behind how cancer affects different racial and ethnic groups will be the focus of the first American Association for Cancer Research conference on the topic, entitled “The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.”

The meeting is to be held November 27 to 30 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia.

“Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer incidence and mortality are well documented,” said meeting co-chair Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D., professor of medicine and human genetics at the University of Chicago and director of the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Cancer Risk Clinic. “While data suggest that access to quality care is a factor in cancer disparities, other factors also play a major role, including tumor biology, genetics, lifestyle and behavior, screening policies, comorbidities, environmental exposure and risk, quality of and response to therapy, and post-therapeutic surveillance.”
» Read more after the jump →