ALA Proposes New Dues Structure

Carnegie Mellon University proposes to develop a new paradigm for

Modern File Systems provide scalable performance for large file data management. However, in case of metadata management the usual approach is to have single or few points of metadata service (MDS). In the current world, file systems are challenged by unique needs such as managing exponentially growing files, using filesystem as a key-value store, checkpointing that are highly metadata intensiv...

Part 556—tolerances for Resi- Dues of New Animal Drugs in Food

(a) The following drugs, families of drugs, and substances are prohibited for extralabel animal and human drug uses in food-producing animals. (1) Chloramphenicol; (2) Clenbuterol; (3) Diethylstilbestrol (DES); (4) Dimetridazole; (5) Ipronidazole; (6) Other nitroimidazoles; (7) Furazolidone (except for approved topical use); (8) Nitrofurazone (except for approved topical use); (9) Sulfonamide d...

CMS proposes changes in H&P rule.

CMA proposes health charter, medicare "auditor general".

Varmus proposes guidelines for stem cell research.

After almost a year of discussion and debate, Harold Varmus, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has proposed guidelines under which federally funded scientists can pursue research using human pluripotent stem cells. The issue has been politically charged. Conservative members of Congress have gone on record against the use of the cell cultures because they believe it viola...