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Nepal-born scholar in neuroscience breakthrough Finding could …
Republica
The Salk Institute, a not-for-profit organization, was founded by Dr Jonas Salk, who discovered the Polio vaccine and chose to distribute it throughout the …
Site for alcohol's action in the brain discoveredEurekAlert (press release)

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Probe underway of day-care programs
Bolingbrook Sun
The programs under investigation are Crusader Club at Jonas Salk Elementary School; Shamrock Club at Jamie McGee; Pioneer Club at Pioneer Elementary and …

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The First Swine Flu Epidemic
History News Network
The government program was supported by Jonas Salk, a genuine American hero. Salk felt that giving people the vaccine was better than having it sit on the …

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On this day in history
Chicago Tribune
In 1995 Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, Calif.; he was 80. …

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Hoosick graduates hold on to values
Bennington Banner
… and about great figures in history such as Galileo, who stood up to the church for scientific ideals, and Jonas Salk, who invented a vaccine for polio. …

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"Efficiency" Measures Miss the Point
HarvardBusiness.org
Say Jonas Salk spent million to raise 0 million to find a polio vaccine. The admin:program ratio would report he had a shameful 50% overhead. …

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My own discovery: We need research
Daily News – Galveston County
To become a Louis Pasteur, a Madame Curie or a Jonas Salk. To become an immortal of medical research history because of an invaluable contribution! …

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So Obama wants kids not to smoke. I think I can help.
Daily Kos
He survived a bout of polio – before Jonas Salk's vaccine made it possible for the rest of us not to worry about it. He started smoking when he was 12. …

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The Case Against Gene Patents
IPWatchdog.com
When Jonas Salk developed his vaccine for polio, he was asked by Edward R. Murrow who owned the patent on the vaccine. His famous reply was “well, …

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The Public Health Care Experiment in the 1950s
Daily Kos
Dr. Jonas Salk created a vaccine in his laboratory with those dimes and the government sponsored a nation-wide inoculataion program. …

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