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Drug ad effects on people need more study: FDA (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

16 May 2008

Ads for prescription drugs need to be clear and direct and government needs to study the effects these ads have on consumer behavior, particularly among the elderly and minorities, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts said on Thursday.

NIH grant to benefit minorities in science (Columbia Daily Tribune)

15 May 2008

A $1.84 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Missouri is intended to improve biomedical training for minority scientists. The grant, administered by the NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity, was awarded to MU’s Nexus Minority Science Network.

Iran bans advertisement on foreign-based satellite TVs (Payvand Iran News)

15 May 2008

Karimi said that many beauty saloons or other similar institutes that broadcast advertisement on foreign-based satellite TVs, have so far, been "identified and confronted" within the past few months with the help of Iran's police. -IRNA