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August 12, 1997
NIH Crafts Response to Summer Smog Alerts
Electronic Shopping Mall for NIH'ers Debuts
Gay, Lesbian NIH'ers Continue Struggle for Equality
Arthritis Briefing Examines Growing Costs of Disability
'Net-Worked Conference Mammary Gland Biologists Converge at Natcher
Latino Students Explore Health Research Opportunities
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New Program Proceeds Quickly First Class of Clinical Research Trainees Set to Start This Fall
A select group of the nation's medical and dental students are arriving at NIH to
form the charter class of NIH's new Clinical Research Training Program. Modeled
after the successful Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholars
Program, which has brought hundreds of medical students to train in NIH
laboratories since its establishment in 1985, the CRTP grew from concept to
accomplishment in less than a year.
Social Inequality Harms Health, Sociologist Says By Susan M. Persons When the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, consequences to public health are grave. "Socioeconomic differentials are arguably the most important public health problem facing our nation," reported Dr. James S. House, the featured speaker at a recent NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research seminar and scientist at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. M O R E . . . |