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Caring for patients
It’s September. Kids are back in school. A federal panel predicted a worst-case scenario of 90,000 Americans dead from complications of swine flu ten days ago. CDC’s Clinician Guidance: Identifying and Caring for Patients is still dated May 4 and fails to provide any guidance based on study of the pandemic’s characteristics. It still says,…
CDC.gov advertises for Gardasil on its home page
Julie Gerberding moved to Merck Vaccines last month and CDC simultaneously decided to focus on cervical cancer. What a coincidence! The only cancer mentioned on CDC’s home page is cervical cancer, and a chart of cervical cancer incidence by ethnicity is the only statistical information on the home page. CDC says, “The PAP test and…
COMMENTARY Death By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical Records/ WBUR
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/05/12/boston-electronic-medical-records?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170512 By Drs. John Levinson, Bruce H. Price and Vikas Saini It happens every day, in exam rooms across the country, something that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago: Doctors and nurses turn away from their patients and focus their attention elsewhere — on their computer screens. By the time the doctor can finally turn…
Home virus tests recalled over false positives reach 2 million kits/ NY Times
The Australian company Ellume has expanded a recall of its at-home coronavirus test because of concerns about a “higher-than-acceptable” rate of false positives, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday. The recall now includes roughly two million of the 3.5 million test kits that Ellume had shipped to the United States by last month, a substantial increase from the company’s…
Quick explanation of FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization/Retraction for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
The Trump administration arranged on March 28 for 30-60 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine and certain (unapproved, unlicensed) chloroquine tablets to be donated by manufacturers to the National Strategic Stockpile (NSS) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The official who signed the EUA is the FDA’s Chief Scientist, Denise M. Hinton. Denise Hinton is a nurse with a master’s degree,…
Remembering a humble giant of biological and chemical weapons control/ Bulletin Atomic Scientists
Well-known arms control/disarmament/nonproliferation expert Jonathan Tucker died last week at 56. Paul Walker, who follows a similar career trajectory, as arms control advocate and expert, wrote about Tucker’s life and accomplishments. Regarding Tucker’s views on the anthrax letters case, Paul wrote the following: His intellectual and academic vigor, together with his journalistic instincts, were also…