Budget: Bush proposes shifting $74 million to NSF

USDA proposes end to acclimation certificates.

The AVMA will likely comment on the proposed amendment, which is on the February meeting agenda for the Council on Veterinary Service. The Association's recently revised policy on acclimation certificates is available at www.avma.org/issues/policy. More on the certificates and the AVMA policy is online at www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/jan08/080115f.asp. Page 1 of 2 USDA proposes end to acclimation...

Proposal to NSF CISE

Response to Snodgrass and Bush.

We sincerely appreciate the comments made by Warren Snodgrass and Nicol Bush regarding our paper. First of all, we need to clarify that of our population of 130 patients only 66 have already reached pubertal development (55 in the preputial flap group and 11 in the staged repair). The aim of the published paper, as already clearly stated in our discussion, was limited to a retrospective analysi...

Nsf.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) facilitate largescale identification of genomic variants that are associated with complex traits. However, susceptibility loci identified by GWAS so far generally account for a limited fraction of the genotypic variation in patient populations. Predictive models based on identified loci also have modest success in risk assessment and therefore are of limit...

First North American case of Hemoglobin Shepherds Bush (β 74[E18] Gly→Asp) in a central Pennsylvania family Authors:

Background: Hemoglobin Shepherds Bush is an unstable hemoglobin variant resulting from a β 74 GGC to GAC mutation (Gly to Asp) that manifests clinically as hemolytic anemia or gall bladder disease due to chronic subclinical hemolysis. Case Presentation: We report a Pennsylvania family of English descent with this condition, first noticed in a 6-year-old female. The proband presented with spleno...