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IMAGE: Lorne Babiuk, OC, SOM, Ph.D., DSc, FRSC, a leader in Canadian vaccine research, has been awarded the Gairdner Wightman Award.

University of Saskatchewan Professor Emeritus Lorne Babiuk has been awarded the prestigious Canada Gairdner Wightman Award in recognition of his accomplishments over three decades that include leading the U of S Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) to become a world centre for vaccine research, training and development.

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I’m a Looked After Children social worker (the term for children in public care). Usually they come to us when their placement has broken down, at which point we will start looking for a new foster carer. I have 15 children on my caseload, which is the maximum.

Usually they have been subjected to neglect, physical abuse and sometimes sexual abuse. Sometimes their families just can’t cope with them. That’s not so common now – social services are more likely to work with families to keep their children than take them into care.

I work with the NHS in a couple of ways. Our children see nurses at least once a year, and some see mental health specialists. M

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An organization that assists recent military veterans has an answer to the crisis caused by the aging population of farmers: they are helping returning veterans become farmers at a time when the farmer workforce is dwindling. The Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) based in Davis, California, offer their programs nationwide to recent vets. They find volunteer farmers to mentor veterans in farming, and also place vets into agricultural jobs and internships.

As explained on their web site:

“America’s farms are facing a crisis for lack of young able-bodied individuals going into agriculture.  The 2007 Census of Agriculture reveal that the average American farmer is 57 years old, up from 55 in the last Census, with two farmers retiring for every one entering the field. This

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 29 () — Nicotine patches don’t seem to be of much use in helping pregnant women quit smoking, a new study finds.

Dr. Tim Coleman, of the Centre for Tobacco Control Studies at the University of Nottingham in England, and colleagues assigned 1,050 women who were 12 to 24 weeks pregnant to one of two groups. Members of one group received behavioral smoking cessation support and wore a nicotine patch, while the other group received the counseling but wore a patch that looked like the real thing but did not contain nicotine.

Women given the active nicotine patch had higher quit rates (about 21 percent) during the first month of the study than women in the placebo group (nearly 12 percent).

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