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Draining the swamp: moving in the right direction/ Reuters
From Reuters came a short piece on a new Executive Order, without much commentary to put it into perspective re how things worked in former administrations. President Donald Trump on Saturday put restrictions on the kind of lucrative lobbying gigs his White House aides and other administration officials can accept after they leave government. Trump,…
New Suspected Narcolepsy Cases in Finland/ YLE
UPDATE: Australia has banned 4 flu vaccines and approved 2 for children under age ten, on March 11, 2011. The 2011 flu vaccine in Australia has identical antigens as last year. According to The Australian, up to 1 in 100 children under five vaccinated with the CSL vaccine last year suffered a seizure, more than the ninefold…
Better educated parents vaccinate their children less/ Canadian Press
<img width=”1″ height=”1″ src=”http://s.clickability.com/s?19=990&14=0&6=92807664&7=400599&18=0.3629032722800133″> From Helen Branswell at the Canadian Press: It might seem counterintuitive but it also appears to be true: Parents with more education were less likely to get their daughters vaccinated against HPV during the first year of British Columbia’s free school-based program, a new study shows. The finding of the study,…
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…
Fukushima lesson: You can’t rely on govt or industry when a real crisis comes along/ NY Times
Most detailed look yet at the flawed decision-making and terrible information sharing between TEPCO, government bureaucrats, political leaders and outsiders during Japan’s nuclear crisis by the NY Times: Reuters The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, damaged by a tsunami on March 11, became the site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, as workers successfully warded…
NIH (like CDC) has an industry slush fund, with NFL its largest donor, allowing NFL veto power over concussion research/ ESPN
The story about the NIH funding for concussion research is confusing, because neither NIH nor the NFL will say exactly what transpired. But the NFL gave (or merely promised) $30 million to the NIH Foundation in 2012. But it seems there were strings attached. NFL was unhappy with a researcher given the NIH grant, and…