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A new NIH commissioned study to investigate anecdotal evidence that black biomedical researchers face a a negative bias in grant funding success rates found that is true. The NIH is taking the insights provided by this report seriously and efforts are underway to improve training, mentoring and grant application assistance to minorities.
Peer review is used by publishers and by funders of scientific research to ensure that the scientific record is robust. However, the system is not perfect. This blog posting is about two recently released reports that review and make recommendations for improvement of the peer-review system.
As announced on the CIHR website: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has partnered with the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) and the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the creation of this central, electronic repository for CIHR-funded research publications." This is a great new resource. I look forward to using it.
A June 2, 2009 article, Online, A Reason To Keep On Going, in the New York Times reported that among older people who went online last year, the number visiting social networks like Facebook and MySpace grew almost twice as fast as the overall rate of Internet use among that group, according to the media measurement company comScore.Researchers who focus on aging are now studying whether the networks can provide some of the benefits of a group of friends, while being much easier to assemble and maintain. About one-third of people 75 and older live alone. Per the article, in response to the growing number of older Americans, the National Institute on Aging is awarding at least $10 million in grants for researchers who examine social neuroscience and its effect on aging.