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Roadmap Ramps Up Clinical Research
'Academic Home' To Be Created for Clinical, Translational
Science |
By Carla Garnett |
Adding new vigor to clinical research has been
a top priority for NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni since he arrived
here in 2002. No surprise then that one of the NIH Roadmap’s
three main initiatives is Re-engineering the Clinical Research
Enterprise. The largest component of the initiative is the Clinical
and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program that was announced
in fall 2005. Its first awards will be made by the end of September
2006.
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Labyrinth as Holistic Healing
The Calmest Distance Between Two Ears Is Not a
Straight Line |
By Belle Waring |
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Fellow Victoria Bohler uses the NIH labyrinth. |
Riddle me this: What single word means a dance
floor, a convoluted enclosure, an organ of balance, a turbine seal
and a place to meditate?
Answer: the labyrinth.
Ancient poets sang of the labyrinth as a place where youths and
maidens danced, as well as a mythical structure where heroes and
monsters matched wits. The human ear contains, in its inner portion,
an anatomical labyrinth of semicircular canals and a snail-shaped
coil. The labyrinth seal, used in turbines, has intricate threads.
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