Report: President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors

Not a single doctor or paramedic of the 2,000 working at public hospitals in Pune, India have accepted free flu shots offered to them by state government, according to the Times of India. Yet hospitals in the US increasingly force their employees to receive these inoculations, although they have not been shown to reduce infections…

And now from the Snowden cache is the story of how it ain’t only the metadata that is vacuumed up by NSA and saved for posterity. No, it is the complete audio recording of calls that is being obtained and stored.  The program allegedly began in 2009, but according to the WaPo, calls are only…

The feds have done a lot right in terms of swine flu vaccine production. While they are receiving criticism right now, it’s only fair to note the things that have been done well. At the beginning of the epidemic, with lots of deaths in Mexico, the government decided to procure enough vaccine for all who…

Here is a compendium of very useful info on H1N1, both for clinicians and the public. It appears to be regularly updated. Cidrap has gathered its information from WHO, CDC and other sources.

Calls for an inquest are made anew as lack of fingerprints on the two items supposedly used to commit suicide, (3 packs of ten Co-proxamol [Darvon plus Tylenol] tablets and a pruning knife) becomes public knowledge. Note that blood levels of Darvon and Tylenol were therapeutic, and did not support any overdose.  Why Kelly would…