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Patients: Your Researcher Will See You Now!

Kathleen O'Malley | March 13, 2012

Guest blogger Susan Woods, a physician and SPM board member, urges patients to help shape PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and initial Research Agenda, and offers her own comments here. The public comment period ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 15. Patient voices are needed now! The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) [...]

NIH Summit on Health Disparities

Susannah Fox | December 17, 2008

NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus’s article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven’t seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories about the summit in the news, on blogs, on Twitter, [...]