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WHYY By (Tembinkosi Sikupela / Unsplash) Heather Burris remembers growing up in a small, predominantly Black suburb on the north end of Hartford, Connecticut. Burris would go on to pursue a career in medicine, but she said her early experiences as a white girl in her hometown had an immense impact on her life’s trajectory. “Within my small micro-community, I was a minority and was able to see the world in more of a racialized lens,” said Dr. Burris. “And so when I came into medicine [and] I would see the sort of over-representation of Black infants in the neonatal intensive care unit,...

A Final 2020 DMR Update from Commissioner Keliher As 2020 slowly draws to a close, I’d like to share with you one last monthly update on the work of Maine DMR before we close the books on a year of challenges. Pat. Policy and Management Bureau The New England Fishery Management Council met on December 1-3 via webinar. Much of the current work of the Council is focused on identifying specifications for fishing year 2021, including catch limits for the federal scallop, whiting, and spiny dogfish fisheries. The Council did take final action on groundfish catch limits for FY2021 as a part of Fr...

Patrick Keliher Patrick Keliher (Photo courtesy Maine Dept. of Marine Resources) Policy and Management Bureau The New England Fishery Management Council met on December 1-3 via webinar. Much of the current work of the Council is focused on identifying specifications for fishing year 2021, including catch limits for the federal scallop, whiting, and spiny dogfish fisheries. The Council did take final action on groundfish catch limits for FY2021 as a part of Framework 61. The Council will continue work on Framework 61 in January when it is slated to take final action on a redfish universal sect...

Gene Morse, CIGBS director and SUNY Distinguished Professor School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) and clinical trial services provider Circuit Clinical have partnered to provide Western New York patients access to COVID-19 clinical research opportunities. Circuit Clinical is the creator of a platform that helps patients take part in new medical advances while choosing clinical research as a care option, and assists scientists with finding clinical trial participants. Through the new collaboration, patients in the region ...

New toolkit aims to maximize high-quality collection of thrombosis data in COVID-19 clinical studies The ASH Research Collaborative (ASH RC) and the International Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis (ISTH), two organizations with multidisciplinary expertise in blood clotting and bleeding disorders, have developed a toolkit to help clinical researchers from across medical disciplines design clinical trials that further the understanding of blood clotting events associated with COVID-19. The new Toolkit for the Collection of Thrombosis-Related Data Elements in COVID-19 Clinical Studies, publi...