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Senators Squabbling Over Health Bills
"For a brief moment Thursday, Senate Democrats could celebrate. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus suggested for the first time publicly he was hoping for a bipartisan deal to pay for health care reform by the end of the day. The good feelings didn"t last long," Politico reports. "Within hours, Baucus (D-Mont.) said the talks were suspended until next week - defying President Barack Obama"s request to produce an agreement by the weekend and throwing into doubt any hopes of meeting the president"s August deadline to pass a Senate bill." And Baucus "had to call the White House and apologize for saying earlier in the day that Obama"s resistance to taxing employer health benefits "is not helping us" get a bill."

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University of Queensland scholarship recipient Alex Ridley is using his mathematical and communication skills to improve future public health.
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London Professor Wins Clinical Psychology Award, UK

Professor Til Wykes is to receive the 2009 M.B. Shapiro Award from the British Psychological Society"s Division of Clinical Psychology. It is the Division"s premier award and is made each year to a clinical psychologist who has achieved eminence in the profession. Professor Wykes will give her Award Lecture at the Division of Clinical Psychology"s Annual Conference, to be held at the Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1, on 9-11 December 2009. Further information about the Conference can be found at http://www.dcpconference.co.uk. Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and Director of the National Institute for Health Research"s Mental Health Research Network in the UK. She has been involved in research on the rehabilitation of people with serious mental health problems for many years, both in the development of services and the evaluation of innovative psychological treatments. She founded and is now Co-Director of the Service User Research Enterprise, which encourages consumers of mental health services to become more involved in research. Professor Wykes continues to be a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working on an intensive care ward within the Maudsley Hospital and also edits the Journal of Mental Health. In 1995 she won the Division of Clinical Psychology"s May Davidson Award, which is given to a psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of their work. Clinical psychologists work mainly in the NHS, using psychological science to help people with physical and mental health problems. M.B. Shapiro, who died in 2000, was a key figure in the development of the profession in the UK. British Psychological Society


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