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WASHINGTON
UPDATE
*If the National
Institutes of Health gets a promised reauthorization bill this year,
look for the bill to include language that pushes for more cooperation
between physical and biological sciences at the agency and across the
federal government, says former Representative John Porter, R-Ill., now
chairman of the board at Research!America. In an April 21 interview with
the science policy newsletter Washington Fax. Porter says that House
Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, is “bound
and determined” to get an NIH reauthorization bill to the Senate
this year.
*An IOM report released
on April 27 recommends changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to include more whole
grain, fruit and vegetable consumption. The new program would give
vouchers or coupons totaling $10 a month for each woman and $8 a month
for each child for fresh produce. To read more, go here.
*The U.S. Department
of Agriculture introduced its next-generation food pyramid with a new
look and a variety of personalized versions at its Web site on April
18. To find which of its 12 permutations fits your lifestyle and health
profile, go to http://www.mypyramid.gov/.
*Eight new members
were appointed to the HHS Advisory Committee on Minority Health on
April 22. The new members are Leo MacKay, Ph.D., of ACS State Healthcare
in Atlanta, Georgia, Joseph Kevin Villagomez, M.A., of the Department
of Public
Health in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Cheryl Killion,
B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D., of the Center for Minority Family Health in
Hampton, Virginia, Edna M. Berastain, M.B.A., of Latinos/as, Contra SIDA
in Hartford, Connecticut., Inam Ur Rahman, M.D., of the Diabetic Clinic
in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kermit C. Smith, D.O., M.P.H. of the Indian Health
Service in Tucson, Arizona, Adrienne Laverdure, M.D., of the Peter Christensen
Health Center in Lac Du Flambeau, Wisconsin and Valerie Romero-Leggott,
M.D., of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. To read more about
the members, go here.
*Paulette S. Gray,
Ph.D., is the new director of Division of Extramural Activities at
the National Cancer Institute, NCI announced on April 19. Gray has
worked in a variety of positions at NCI since 1984, most recently as
the acting director and deputy director of the division since 2003.
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