UMN: Bio-Med Library - Public Health

The fourth annual symposium, now two days long, supports the field of bioinformatics and its UM Graduate Program.It includes tutorials, world-renowned speakers, a poster session, exhibits,
demonstrations, and a lunch hosted by the Bioinformatics Graduate Faculty. All events are free. Advance registration has closed. Same-day registration will be available as space permits.

Tutorials and Talks will be webcast live. Webcasts will be archived for two weeks.

Full Information: http://www.binf.umn.edu/bisymp05/

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The fourth annual symposium, now two days long, supports the field of bioinformatics and its UM Graduate Program.It includes tutorials, world-renowned speakers, a poster session, exhibits,
demonstrations, and a lunch hosted by the Bioinformatics Graduate Faculty. All events are free. Advance registration has closed. Same-day registration will be available as space permits.

Tutorials and Talks will be webcast live. Webcasts will be archived for two weeks.

Full Article: http://www.binf.umn.edu/bisymp05/

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Every week on CBS's hit series Numb3rs, an FBI agent relies on his math genius brother to find patterns that help to solve crimes. With its new Apple Xserve G5 computing cluster, the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) is solving double-helix puzzles in human genetics every day. Using Pitt's 125-node Xserve cluster, more than 30 investigators and scientific teams tackling more than 120 projects have computing power available like never before.

Full Article: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uopm-uop041305.php

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The University of Minnesota today received $5 million from Microsoft Corp. at a ceremonial check presentation in the McNamara Alumni Center. The payment comes from the April 2004 settlement agreement of an antitrust class action lawsuit the State of Minnesota had brought against Microsoft Corp. The University was not a plaintiff in the case.

Full Article: http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/U_receives_5_million_announces_new_bioinformatics_initiative.html

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National, State, and Urban Area Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19--35 Months --- United States, 2003. (July 30, 2004). MMWR 53(29): 658-661.

Each annual birth cohort in the United States comprises approximately 4 million infants. Maintaining the gains in vaccination coverage achieved during the 1990s among these children poses a continuing challenge for public health practitioners. The National Immunization Survey (NIS) provides estimates of vaccination coverage among children aged 19-35 months for each of the 50 states and 28 selected urban areas.

Link from Georgia State University Public Health Blog
Link to Article - MMWR

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Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 2:52 PM EDT (1852 GMT)

San Francisco, California (Reuters) -- California immigrants live an average of four years longer than U.S.-born residents of the state but researchers concede they do not know why, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Immigrants on average have a life expectancy of 81 years versus 77 years for U.S.-born residents of the nation's most populous state.

The study -- The Demographics of Mortality in California -- was based on data from the 2000 U.S. Census and the state's Department of Public Health. It was released Wednesday.

Article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/13/immigrant.mortality.reut/index.html

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