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... LGC provides programme management for UK's NIHR: News from LGC News Release from: LGC Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial Team on 16 March 2006 LGC provides programme management for UK's NIHRLGC, a provider of analytical and diagnostic services and reference standards, is to provide programme management for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

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LGC, a provider of analytical and diagnostic services and reference standards, is to provide programme management for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

The NIHR is a key component of the Department of Health (DH) strategy publication, 'Best Research for Best Health: A New National Health Research Strategy' (January 2006), for the NHS in England.

For an initial period of five years, LGC will operate the NIHR's Central Commissioning Facility.This is being created to streamline and simplify the application process for DH research and development funding.LGC will also manage two of the programmes that will come under the Central Commissioning Facility - the existing 'Policy Research Programme' (PRP), and a new response mode programme 'Research for Patient Benefit' (RfPB).LGC's External Programme Management Group (EPMG), which will lead on the work, already manages two existing DH research programmes: 'New and Emerging Applications of T...

...The person's environment might also provoke anorexia or prevent it.Michael Strober, a clinical psychologist at the University of California at Los Angeles and editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, said conventional wisdom is that genetic factors do play a role in susceptibility.This latest study, published in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, further confirms previous research, Strober said.The study also found a link between anorexia and childhood "neuroticism," which Bulik describes as "a tendency to be depressed or anxious, and also to be emotionally reactive.""For some kids, insults come right off them like water off a duck's back," she said.

"These kids are more like emotional Velcro.

Things stuck to them, get under their skin, and it influences them."For Strober, the new study also lends support to the belief that personality traits, including neuroticism, are important in the development of anorexia.

He believes that nearly all anorexia sufferers exhibit neurotic behavior in childhood.Bulik and Strober are both involved in a large, federally funded multiyear study of anorexia.

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