WATCH this 2 minute video: highlights the changing vaccine headlines, features Faucian prose with a perfect classical music accompaniment (Grieg?)

One CDC high-containment lab (BSL-3, the level of containment required to study anthrax) fails to contain air efflux.  And it was discovered because visitors touring the facility saw a puff of air exit through a slot in a door window.  How long had this been going on?   USAToday points out that the BSL-3 lab doors…

The House Judiciary Committee hearing can be viewed here. Eleven or twelve members attended the House Judiciary Committee’s FBI oversight hearing today. Repeatedly, they expressed disappointment with the FBI’s continuing failure to answer their questions, and to respond to written questions. Director Mueller only produced a written response to the Committee’s September 5, 2008 letter…

Former NY Times journalist and non-practicing physician Elisabeth Rosenthal’s new book, An American Sickness, lists 10 economic “rules” of US medicine that are guaranteed to make money, but not to improve outcomes: More treatment is always better. Default to the most expensive option. A lifetime of treatment is better than a cure. Amenities and marketing…

JP plays the head of the Centers for Dominance and Control over People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_kwFKAmd8M&ab_channel=FoxNews

Click here for the full, free text.  Ideas and Opinions | online 16 October 2014 Caring for Patients with Ebola: A challenge in Any Care Facility Mark G. Kortepeter, MD, MPH; Philip W. Smith, MD; Angela Hewlett, MD; and Theodore J. Cieslak, MD The largest outbreak of Ebola virus continues unabated in West Africa. With the recent death of a…

It is only one study.  But it was carefully done, used interesting methods, and it tried to explore issues that have rarely been studied.  Researchers from the University of Maryland studied students who had new symptoms of influenza to see if infectious flu virus spread during coughs, sneezing, or regular breathing.  They looked at nasal…