Phill Wilson
President and CEOPrior to founding the Institute, Wilson served as the AIDS Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles from 1990 to 1993, the Director of Policy and Planning at AIDS Project Los Angeles from 1993 to 1996. He was co-chair of the Los Angeles County HIV Health Commission from 1990 to 1995, and was an appointee to the HRSA AIDS Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1998.
Wilson was the coordinator of the International Community Treatment and Science Workshop at the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th International AIDS Conferences in Geneva, Switzerland; Durban, South Africa; Barcelona, Spain; Bangkok, Thailand; an...
Source: PHRMA - September 10, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Emily Source Type: news
Preventive cardiology – a major challenge: Reports from Latvia and Lithuania
"This month, Latvia and Lithuania are being added to the prevention map of Europe. With a cardiovascular risk burden and mortality still among the highest in Europe, preventive cardiology undoubtedly remains a major challenge! Read the country reports of the National CVD Prevention Coordinators and be inspired by their hard work to win the battle against premature cardiac death.” Joep Perk, EACPR Prevention Implementation Committee Chair
Topics:
Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management (Source...
Source: ESC News and Press - August 12, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Latvia may declare state of emergency to cope with African swine fever
RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia may declare a state of emergency in the eastern part of the country, near its border with Belarus and Russia to fight, an outbreak of African swine fever in some wild boars and domestic pigs. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Critical assessment of the Baltic Model
(Linköping University) Austerity packages work. Look at the Baltic countries: they responded to the financial crisis with drastic measures. And succeeded.'This is a popular narrative amongst leading neoliberal economists,' says Charles Woolfson, professor of labor studies at REMESO, Linköping University. Together with Jeffrey Sommers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he recently co-edited a book on the financial crisis in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, published at Routledge. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 28, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Comptel Has Received Significant Order from Operator in Latvia for Comptel Policy Control
(Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - May 15, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
SIA ExpressCredit releases bonds in the amount of 5 million euros
Latvian largest network
of pawnshops SIA ExpressCredit that works with brand Lombards24.lv has
completed bond issue, thereby attracting 5 million euros for development of the
business of the company. In general, 5000 bonds were issued with an original
nominal value of 1000 euros. Yearly interest rate of the coupon is 14% with a 5
year term and gradual repayment. (Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - March 28, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Construction contract in Latvia (school campus buildings in Riga)
(Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - February 10, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Learn Russian in a day
Tackling Russian in a day looked tricky – but with the aid of memory palaces, anything is possible ...• Learn how to protest in Russian – video• Five memory techniques for learning languagesThe formal "hello" in Russian is a necessary yet wholly unwelcoming word. It's packed with consonants that trip over each other, often within the same syllable. I try it over and over again, and only sound like I'm spitting. "Zdtras-vooy-tyeh." I am starting to hate it.I'm off to see a memory expert to find out if I can learn a language in a day, and I seem to have picked a particularly tricky one. When I arrive at their office,...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 7, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Nicholson Tags: The Guardian Russia Language Features Life and style Languages Source Type: news
The construction of the last residential house of the phase I of the Bišumuiža development project in Latvia
On the 16th January Arco Development SIA the Latvian
subsidiary of Arco Real Estate AS which is the 100% subsidiary of Arco Vara AS
concluded a Construction Contract for building the last residential house of
the Bišumuiža development project’s phase I. The building will be completed in
June 2014. The capacity of the Construction Contract without VAT is 392
thousand euros. (Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE))
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - January 20, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
On changes in the Latvian government debt securities listed on NASDAQ OMX Baltic Bond list
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Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - December 29, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Skype and cheap calls give an illusion of closeness, but homesickness is still real | Ian Jack
People are keener than ever to leave for new and faraway places; does technology keep them close to what they have left, or make them pine for it all the more?Nostalgia used to be considered an illness. A word with a refreshingly certain etymology, it was coined by a Swiss medical student, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 joined together two Greek words, nostos for homecoming and algos for pain or ache, to describe "a neurological disease of [an] essentially demonic cause". The Swiss also knew it as mal du Suisse or Schweizerheimweh, later translated into English as the nationally unspecific "homesickness", a mental a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 20, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Ian Jack Tags: Comment The Guardian Family Society Language Features Migration Science Comment is free Source Type: news
How not to run a women in science campaign
If science wants to deal with its diversity issues, it need to think beyond gender and be willing to changeIn June last year, the European Commission released a teaser video for a new campaign to recruit young women to science: "Science: It's a Girl Thing!" It was met with a loud and global WTAF.If you somehow missed the resulting outrage, watch it now and have a mini one all of your own. Even if you remember it, treat yourself to a re-watch. There is something almost beautiful about how bad it is.Concerned that stereotypical images of science were putting girls off studying the subject, the video wanted to show science in...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 14, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Alice Bell Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts Science policy Women in politics Gender Source Type: news
Internet Connection Speed in the US
According to several recent studies looking at internet download speeds in the United States vast differences in internet connection speed can be measured across the county. Gizmodo recently posted maps that visually demonstrate the results of several of these studies. The results suggest that the South Central Region (SCR) area includes some of the lower speeds in the US. Typical findings show that in areas of finical wealth internet speeds are higher. In rural areas including parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico speeds tend to be lower as necessary infrastructure is usually not in place to support high spee...
Source: Network News - September 26, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Emily Hurst Tags: General (all entries) Technology connection high speed internet internet connection rural Source Type: news
Most nations have constitutional right to healthcare, not U.S.
LOS ANGELES, July 26 (UPI) -- Uruguay, Latvia, Senegal and more than half of the world's countries have a right to public health and medical care, but not the United States, researchers say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - July 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Many countries have a constitutional right to health care, but not the US
Uruguay has it. So does Latvia, and Senegal. In fact, more than half of the world's countries have some degree of a guaranteed, specific right to public health and medical care for their citizens written into their national constitutions. The United States is one of 86 countries whose constitutions do not guarantee their citizens any kind of health protection... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news
