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Oct. 13 -- The Institute of Medicine today announced the names of 65 new members, raising the number of active and emeritus members to 1,647. In addition, the Institute honored five individuals by election to foreign associate membership, bringing the total members in that category to 89. Election is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.
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Oct. 13 -- At its annual meeting today, the Institute of Medicine presented John E. Wennberg with the 2008 Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the advancement for personal health care services in the United States in recognition of his impact on the evolution of health care delivery and promotion of patient-centered care. Also, Paul R. McHugh received the 2008 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of psychiatry and his wide-ranging efforts to identify and treat various mental disorders. In addition, IOM honored three of its members for outstanding service to the organization.
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Oct. 7 -- All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data -- such as phone records or Web sites visited -- should be required to evaluate the programs' effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report offers a framework agencies can use to evaluate programs, and urges Congress to consider new restrictions on how agencies can use data.
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Oct. 8 -- Martin Chalfie, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Roger Y. Tsien, a member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences, will each receive a third of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein GFP. They will share the prize with Osamu Shimomura.
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Oct. 7 -- National Academy of Sciences member Yoichiro Nambu has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his introduction of spontaneous broken symmetry into elementary particle physics, along with Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, who will share half of the prize for their discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry. The spontaneous loss of symmetry permeates the Standard Model of physics, which unifies the smallest building blocks of all matter and three of nature's four fundamental forces into a single theory.
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Oct. 6 -- This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes the discoveries of two viruses causing severe human diseases. The 2008 prize was awarded to Harald zur Hausen, a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine, for his discovery that human papilloma viruses cause cervical cancer, and to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, the discoverers of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Oct. 2 -- The number of emergency room visits in the United States increased by 20 percent between 1995 and 2005, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Wait times have also been on the rise. In 2006, the average ER wait time in an emergency department was 56 minutes -- almost 10 minutes longer than it was in 2004. Meanwhile, the number of emergency departments in the nation is shrinking.
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NEW ISSUE: The summer/fall issue of The National Academies In Focus is now online, featuring Academies activities and recent reports.
On Oct. 14, attend a free book reading of A Place Called Canterbury by author Dudley Clendinen.
Applications are now being accepted through Nov. 1 for postdoctoral and senior research awards in U.S. government laboratories.
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