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The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) will convene February 28 and 29 in Washington, DC. Among the many items on the agenda for the 45th meeting of the PACHA, two are of particular not e...
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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID # 6130 Tying in with my last post (see Declan Butler: Lab flu may not aid vaccines), we’ve an editorial ap pearing...
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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL # 6129 One of the counter arguments offered by researchers when biosecurity experts have warned on the dangers of `dual use’ H5N1 resea rch...
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Twenty-one years ago, the Johnson & Johnson Burn Treatment Center opened its doors at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. The hospital is located in Soweto...
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# 6128 Last week (Feb 2nd) the New York Academy of Sciences hosted a 2-hour debate over H5N1 `dual use’ research. The discussion – called Du al...
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A company called Michael Foods has recalled more than one million hard-boiled eggs because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. These especially nasty bacteria grow happily at refrigerator...
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Yesterday, Walmart announced the launch of its new nutrition labeling system called “Great for You”. Starting this spring, a small selection of Walmart’s private label products &ndas h...
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Even if we were to isolate sugar as public health enemy number one, its regulation would draw us into challenging subtleties.
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