Congressional Fellowships for Science

and options for Congressional Action

" The greatest service which can be rendered any country is, to add a useful plant to its culture. " Thomas Jefferson " The Papers of Thomas Jefferson " (Accession No. 39161), Library of Congress, 1800 " one must learn by doing the thing, for although you think you know it you have no certainty until you try. " Sophocles 496(?)-406 BCE

Sports fellowships.

Several factors should go into selecting a sports medicine fellowship. These include clinical factors, research factors and team coverage experience, among others. The most important issue when selecting a sports medicine fellowship is to identify individual goals. Without accurately identifying one’s goals, it is impossible to select the right fellowship. Sports medicine fellowships vary great...

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Background: Co-morbidity is a powerful predictor of health care outcomes and costs, as well as an important cofounder in epidemiologic studies. The effect of co-morbidities is generally related to mortality or complications. This study evaluated the association between co-morbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients awaiting total joint replacement. Methods: A total of 893 p...

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Vaccinia virus DNA polymerase catalyzes duplex-byduplex DNA joining reactions in vitro and many features of these recombination reactions are reprised in vivo. This can explain the intimate linkage between virus replication and genetic recombination. However, it is unclear why these apparently ordinary polymerases exhibit this unusual catalytic capacity. In this study, we have used different su...

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