Science 22 August 2008:Vol. 321. no. 5892, pp. 1026 – 1027 excerpted from the body of the article: (my apologies that a free link is not available) …The FBI disclosed earlier that only eight samples had all four mutations; on Monday, it said that all but one of these came from USAMRIID. And all eight…
I am honored to be on the board of the Alliance for Human Research Protection and to be working with its dynamic President, Vera Sharav, on stopping a dangerous trial of anthrax vaccine in healthy children. Why sacrifice healthy children for this purpose, when the vaccine does not even have a useful role in post-exposure prophylaxis…
Steve Nissen, head of Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, authored an editorial in JAMA last month on the means by which GlaxoSmithKline tried to cover up increased cardiac events in patients on its drug Avandia (Rosiglitazone). JAMA’s editor, Catherine DeAngelis, wrote her own editorial on this issue, noting: According to the article by Nissen,1 the…
According to the Indian Express, we only know details about one case, a 41 year old Brazilian with lymphoma, a serious cancer. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-health/explained-man-monkeypox-died-kerala-you-must-not-panic-8062774/ “… Outside Africa, there have been only three deaths, not counting the Kerala death. The first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent was reported in Brazil on Friday (July 29). Also on…
Maine Voices: Maine senators should abide by Constitution, OK release of torture report They should also place the full force of their offices behind a return to constitutional government. By Meryl Nass Special to the Press Herald ELLSWORTH — On one historic day 225 years ago, on March 4, 1789, the first U.S. Congress met…
CDC updated its tables today with last week’s data. Swine flu hospitalizations for the last week of October increased more than 1,000 from CDC’s figure last week, presumably due to late reporting. Deaths similarly increased. However, the percentage of positive tests for flu has fallen over 20% from its peak, during the last 2 weeks…