AP Interview: NIH chief wants faster push to turn science into better care, even save money

September 23rd, 2009 NY's Gillibrand seeks fund release for day caresWASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says New York has been unable to spend nearly $97 million in federal stimulus dollars allocated for day care centers because a federal agency has not issued adequate guidelines on how to spend it.

September 18th, 2009 Obama in media blitz to push health care overhaulWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is sitting down for interviews with five television networks this afternoon, a highly unusual schedule even for a president who regularly uses the media to get his message across. Obama will be taping interviews with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Univision that will be shown during the networks' Sunday morning talk shows.

September 13th, 2009 Obama works to stay in control of health debateWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is working to reclaim the initiative from critics of his health care initiative and boost momentum to push his chief domestic priority through Congress. Obama kept up a steady weekend drumbeat of cheerleading for his health care plan in a campaign-style rally, on the radio and Internet, and on network television.

July 23rd, 2009 Obama acknowledges unease over gov't spendingWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is acknowledging that Americans are "understandably queasy" about the rising federal deficit and the government spending trillions of dollars. Yet he says revamping health care is crucial to helping the economy.

July 16th, 2009 Obama pushing hard for health care overhaulWASHINGTON — With votes set in the House, President Barack Obama is still pounding away hard for a bill overhauling the health care system before Congress takes a summer recess. In a nationally broadcast interview, Obama acknowledged a controversy over the cost of reinventing the system at a time when the economy remains hobbled, but declared: "There is no free lunch." In one of a series of network interviews, he said it's time to stop "putting money into things that aren't making people healthy." Obama has proposed increasing taxes on well-off people to help underwrite the cost.

July 15th, 2009 Obama stepping up push for health care overhaulWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has scheduled an appearance in the White House Rose Garden today to talk about his top domestic priority: health care reform. The president wants the House and Senate to pass legislation overhauling the nation's health care system before lawmakers leave town for their annual August recess.

June 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Why does a hard core reformer like the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer - previously known as the Sheriff of Wall Street - virtually turn from 'saint' into 'sinner' overnight? Spitzer, once a hard-hitting prosecutor who routinely brought down the high and mighty for their crooked ways, ruined himself by being linked with a high-end prostitute. A new Northwestern University study suggests that people with ample moral self-worth in one aspect of their lives can slip into immorality or opposite behaviour in other areas.

June 23rd, 2009 Obama: Unemployment to rise, need faster spendingWASHINGTON — Amid rising public impatience with an economy now under his watch, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said his administration needs to push money out faster to initiate a recovery and conceded that unemployment would rise above 10 percent. "People are going through a very tough time right now," Obama said at a White House news conference.

May 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two physicists at Baylor University, US, have an idea that can turn traveling at the speed of light from science fiction to real science, just like the warp speed at which spacecraft travel in the fictional TV and film series 'Star Trek'. Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Dr.

April 23rd, 2009 Feds to end some newspaper, magazine subscriptionsWASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department is dropping some newspaper and magazine subscriptions to save money. The agency has told its employees to cancel subscriptions to general interest newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post and to magazines such as Newsweek and Time by April 27.

March 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Using a material called graphene, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created new superfast chips which can lead to cell phones and other communications systems that can transmit data much faster. Graphene is a form of pure carbon that was first identified in 2004.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - The Indian economy will likely revive faster than other countries though it is difficult to predict when, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subbarao said Sunday.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Men with ring fingers longer than their index fingers run faster, due to testosterone levels, says a new study. Researchers from Southampton University have linked finger-length ratios to a host of things good and bad, from fertility and disease vulnerability to test scores and personality traits.

March 4th, 2009 BEIJING - The hard economic times are also hitting China's legislature. This year's session of the National People's Congress is to be shortened to nine days instead of the typical two weeks to save money, sources informed of the decision said Tuesday.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - The government is setting up a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) to promote basic research work in science and engineering, the Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday. The SERB will be an autonomous body and a bill in this regard was passed by the Lok Sabha Dec 19, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal told the Lok Sabha.