Giving back the helm

Giving back.

It still wasn’t easy, though. “I always had to worry about finances even with the financial assistance,” she said in answer to questions about how financial assistance helped her manage her finances and concentrate on her studies. “In receiving financial assistance I was able to let go of one of the part-time jobs I had, giving me more time to study. My hope is that this scholarship will help o...

Giving carditis back to the heart.

Giving something back to the authors.

For centuries scientific publishing has worked on a bizarre economic model: the real producers of the raw material, the researchers, have received no direct payment for their work. In return for publication they have received exposure, " findability " (thanks to bibliographical databases provided by others), and the " imprimatur " of peer review. Because peer review is an imperfect process, 1 e...

At the helm of the NIDDK.

As of April 2007, Griffin P. Rodgers has taken over as director of the NIDDK, but had been the deputy director under Allen Spiegel since 2001 and the chief of Hematology since 1998. The JCI took the opportunity to ask this career investigator in the NIH about his goals and visions for the NIDDK. JCI: You moved quickly from chief of Hematology to deputy director of the NIDDK to director — what d...

Demagogues at the helm.

Amazing, mind-boggling, incomprehensible, indefensible. The decision by the Federal Government to abolish the mandatory long-form of the census may be the worst policy decision of the past decade in Canada. The impact of this decision, if it is not reversed, will be felt for many years to come and, if it remains in effect over other census cycles or if it is a harbinger of things to come, could...