Monday, June 22, 2009

Wake up, CDC! Your pandemic is here!

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We are 2 months into the outbreak with H1N1 (swine) influenza, a variant not previously identified in humans. However, data suggest it was ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Do you really want to improve healthcare? You do it as a doctor by not settling for anything but the best outcome

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Atul Gawande wrote a 2004 article in the New Yorker that was a stunner. I thought cystic fibrosis patients died around thirty years of ag...
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Laboratory Says Security Is Tighter, but Earlier Count Missed Dangerous Vials/ Wash Post

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Over 9,000 undocumented microbial samples turned up in Fort Detrick's three-month long inventory, completed last month. But that doesn...
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Rationing is Not a 4-Letter Word

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Finally a mainstream article (in the NY Times, no less) redefines the misunderstood notion of rationing and healthcare reform. David Leonhar...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Barriers to an Improved and more Cost-Effective Medical System

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Health care per capita in the United States costs at least double nearly every other country on earth . Yet our longevity, infant mortality...
Monday, June 1, 2009

The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care

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Atul Gawande is a marvelous writer, as well as a surgeon. In an article in today's New Yorker, Gawande proves himself to be in the fir...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

How am I to treat patients with H1N1 flu? How am I to protect them from the treatment?

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The 2009 "Swine flu" A (H1N1) outbreak has been recognized for the past six weeks. It has been studied intensively, we are told, ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Anthrax Vaccine: A Dilemma for Homeland Security/LtCol Tom Rempfer

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This article , from the journal Homeland Security Affairs, recaps the history of the anthrax vaccine program and explores how the anthrax le...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

U.S. funded anthrax vaccine trials on IDF soldiers/ Haaretz

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According to an article by Yossi Melman, the US spent $200 million dollars for Israel to develop and produce an anthrax vaccine, and test i...
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

CDC's anthrax vaccine safety studies defunded/ Science online

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from Science : Michael McNeil's portfolio of flawed anthrax vaccine safety studies at CDC is going away. Drum roll, please. This is a ...

FBI Anthrax Investigation Under Scientific Review/ Science online

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Brief article by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee: A long-awaited review of the scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 2001 anthrax...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Research Advisory Committee on GW Illness Chairman explains how Institute of Medicine was Made to Perform Studies Whose Conclusions Were Predetermined

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Jim Binns, chairman of VA's Research Advisory Committee on GW Veterans' Illnesses since its inception, authored a detailed memo , wi...

Army Nearly Done With Probe of Fort Detrick Lab/ Wash Post

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No Signs of Criminal Misconduct Found Yet in Disappearance of Virus, Official Says This rather inconsequential article (lackin...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

The 2008 Naval Environmental Health Center Study by Dr. Margaret Ryan et al. on anthrax vaccination during pregnancy: a critique and historical review

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Comments on: Ryan, MAK, et al. Birth Defects among Infants Born to Women Who Received Anthrax Vaccine in Pregnancy. American Journal of Epi...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Redesigning Healthcare: Don't Miss This Reinhardt Gem!

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Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton's healthcare economist who has previously been featured in this blog, has posted a very interesting article to ...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

One step could dramatically improve hospital care and patient safety

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Information has many ways of falling through the cracks in hospitals and medical practices. The wrong test may be mistakenly ordered by the ...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

MK Shai calls for anthrax vaccine experiment probe

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from YNet : Kadima Knesset Member and former Israeli Defense Force spokesman Nachman Shai on Friday...

More on the Israeli anthrax vaccine experiment on soldiers

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From the Jerusalem Post From the AP Excerpts from today's Ha'aretz : Dr. Reuven Porat, who chaired the medical committee, told Haar...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Medical panel: Anthrax experiments on IDF soldiers were unjustified

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Another fascinating article on the Israeli anthrax vaccine experiments by Yossi Melman in Haaretz. Excerpts follow. It seems no one in I...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Preventing Bioterrorism (Op/Ed by Rep. Rush Holt)

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Preventing bioterrorism: Thursday, March 12, 2009 BY RUSH HOLT Last year, the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Pr...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009

FBI Press Release details the meaning of the ASM presentations in Baltimore last week--with comments

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For Immediate Release March 6, 2009 Washington D.C. FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691 FBI Responds to Science Issue...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Israeli Ministries take 'full responsibility' for anthrax vaccine trials

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Article in THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 4, 2009 Yaakov Lappin The Defense Ministry, Health Ministry and IDF said they took "full responsibi...

Remembering the anthrax attack

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Glenn Greenwald 's March 4, 2009 Salon article on Representative Rush Holt's bill and the ramifications of the anthrax attack is a ...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

HOLT INTRODUCES ANTHRAX COMMISSION LEGISLATION

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For Immediate Release Contact: Zach Goldberg March 3, 2009 202-225-5801 HOLT INTRODUCES ANTHRAX COMMISSION LEGISLATION Bill...
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