Via Ms.:

FDA Does Damage Control, Naming New Head of Women's Health

Women's groups reported in shock last week that Norris Alderson, PhD, a specialist in veterinary medicine, had been appointed to replace Susan Wood as acting director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health. However, late on Friday, the FDA appeared to do some damage control, announcing the appointment of Theresa Toigo, who has a pharmacy degree and an MBA, to the post.

On Monday, FDA spokesperson Suzanne Trevino told The Washington Post that Alderson had never been appointed to the position, despite the fact that he had been listed as acting director on the official website for the Office of Women's Health, a statement announcing his appointment had been sent to women's groups, and he had been introduced to the office's staff as the acting director. Nonetheless, "There was no official decision made until we announced Theresa Toigo's appointment," Trevino told The Post. (Her office has not returned calls from Ms. magazine.)

You can't tell me that there aren't enough qualified female M.D.'s specializing in internal medicine, ob/gyn, pediatrics, and women's health to have avoided this situation. I _know_ better. So why aren't they being appointed to these important offices? Even the temporary appointment of a male veterinarian to the FDA's Office of Women's Health shouldn't have happened.

Via the Times online: Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows:

CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing.

They have found that one of the engines driving the Gulf Stream the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.

The weakening, apparently caused by global warming, could herald big changes in the current over the next few years or decades. Paradoxically, it could lead to Britain and northwestern and Europe undergoing a sharp drop in temperatures.

Such a change has long been predicted by scientists but the new research is among the first to show clear experimental evidence of the phenomenon. [...]

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