Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Rita Dove Set To Speak At NIH

Catch the former U.S. Poet Laureate speak about her new book Wednesday afternoon via NIH videocast.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove is set to speak this afternoon at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. The talk is part of NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. Dove is set to discuss her new book, Sonata Mulattica, a "poetic treatise on the life of 19th-century Afro-European violinist George Polgreen Bridgetower." Dove was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. She also teaches at the University of Virginia. "Thrilled to host former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer winner Rita Dove at #NIH!" tweeted NIH director Francis S. Collins Wednesday afternoon. The talk is set to begin at 3 p.m. Wednesday and will last about an hour. Watch the event via …

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Montgomery, NIH Near ‘Superbug’ Agreement

Pact would require notification of the public.

  After a fatal “superbug” swept through the National Institutes of Health earlier this year unbeknownst to the public, state and county officials are on the verge of an agreement that will require NIH to report outbreaks of similar hospital-acquired infections, according to Montgomery County's health officer. Last fall, a drug-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae spread throughout NIH’s research hospital, infecting 18 people. Twelve of those cases were fatal; seven attributed to Klebsiella. Federal and state guidelines did not require NIH to report the outbreak, and NIH officials said they chose not to alert the public earlier because healthy people outside the hospital were at little to no risk, The Washington Post reported. …

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Former NIH Worker Sentenced in 100K Credit Card Scheme

Germantown woman bought 119 iPads with government-issued credit card.

A Germantown woman who used a government-issued credit card to buy 119 iPads and other personal items was sentenced to six months in prison and was ordered to pay $106,096.09, the amount it cost the government, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. According to federal prosecutors, Tamia M. McCoy, 33, used her government-issued credit card to buy electronics, designer perfume, a clutch bag and a queen-size mattress set—some of which she resold online—during her time as a purchasing agent and procurement analyst at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. McCoy also used the card to pay for house cleaning and cell phone service. To avoid detection, McCoy falsified documents …

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MoCo Mojo: Is Montgomery County Too 'Fuddy Duddy?'

Is there a generation gap in Montgomery County?

  We have a test for you. Do you call it Montgomery County? Or do you call it MoCo? The answer may tell us something about the different generations in our county. In Montgomery County, seniors are the fastest-growing age group, according to the county’s Division of Aging and Disability Services. The number of seniors in Montgomery County, the state’s largest, increased 130 percent from 1980 to 2010, the agency said. That number is expected to increase an additional 65 percent from 2000 to 2020. The way the blog just up the pike put it, Baby Boomers arrived and "found life so good here that they never left." According to county planning officials, the county has 15 percent fewer adults between 15 and 24 than in 2000 and 17 percent fewer 25…

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Report: Seventh Death Attributed To 'Superbug' At NIH Clinical Center

An antibiotic-resistant superbug, which spread through the hospital last year, has killed a boy whose case was the first reported there since January.

A “superbug” infection killed a boy Sept. 7 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, the seventh victim of the bacterial strain, The Washington Post reports. The victim, a seriously ill boy from Minnesota, died of a bloodstream infection, according to the report. The boy’s case marks the first new infection at the clinical center since January, The Post reported. An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae was first detected in a patient at the clinical center in August 2011 and spread to 17 additional patients, 11 of whom died. Staff there attributed six of the deaths directly to the superbug, The Post reported. Klebsiella infections can pose a threat to seriously ill, hospitalized patients with weakened immune …

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Red Mango Frozen Yogurt Heads to Bethesda (For Some)

Location on NIH campus will likely be inaccessible to the general public.

Frozen yogurt joint Red Mango is set to debut in Bethesda – which is great news for NIH employees, but not so great news for other potential customers. The shop will likely be inaccessible to the general public. The franchise serves up non-fat and low-fat frozen yogurt, smoothies, parfaits, frozen lemonades and frozen coffee chillers. In 2011, it was rated “Top Healthy Options within the Quick Refreshments Chains" and "Best Smoothie/Frozen Yogurt" by Zagat, according to its website. The popular chain boasts 180 locations across the country, including several in Northern Virginia. Now, Red Mango is making its first foray into Montgomery County with a location planned for 10 Center Drive -- inside the security fence at the National …

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Corbin Dallas Multipass

10:36 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Dwyer's post doesn't include the detail that it won't be accessible to the public, where it would be located by description (he does have address), and doesn't include links to red mango's web site for more info about the location. Is that not original reporting?   more ›