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(Tufts University, Health Sciences) Leon Reijmers, Ph.D., of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, has been selected to receive an NIH Director's New Innovator Award.

This prestigious award will support Reijmers' research into the mechanisms of long-term memory.

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In the New York Times today, Gina Kolata's article was entitled, "Citing Ethics, Some Doctors are Rejecting Industry Pay." The main points were:

With little fanfare, a small number of prominent academic scientists have made a decision that was until recently all but unheard of. They decided to stop accepting payments from food, drug and medical device companies.