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Increasing Hygiene, Reducing Suffering In the 19th century, it was possible for whole families to die from diseases such as cholera, typhoid and smallpox and giving birth was a risk for both mother and child Surgery was an...
In Smallpox: The Death of a Disease , Dr. D.A. Henderson recounts the history of the deadly virus, from the development of the first vaccine in the late 18th century to his involvement in the successful global eradication...
Link: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/361/21/2015?query=TOC NEJM Volume 361:2015-2017 Mandatory Vaccination of Health Care Workers Alexandra M. Stewart, J.D. Mandatory vaccination of health care workers raises...
By Ian Brockwell For those of you pondering about the benefits of having a swine flu vaccination (and I hope you have given this some thought!), perhaps I can make your decision a little easier? As you already know, the virus...
KVISTGÅRD, Denmark, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) announced today that BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) has awarded a new contract to Bavarian Nordic for the...
you know, the other day I edited my ad preferences, and since then I've had shitty ads. oh yes, I'm totally interested in the TV show for which the advertisement is 6 garish colours and includes "Click Me!" with what appears to...
Government-controlled vaccine development has left us scarily vulnerable. Drug companies supply what Washington requisitions, at prices dictated and quality minutely controlled by the one, omnipotent customer—if the right...
As a GP in Bradford he helped to give the entire population smallpox vaccinations in just five days My father, Dr Jack Roberts, who has died aged 89, would have been bemused by all the fuss being created over the swine flu...
Troops sue KBR over toxic waste Dozens of US military personnel have filed 34 lawsuits against US defense contractor KBR for allegedly incinerating toxic waste and releasing it into the atmosphere in Iraq and Afghanistan. Susan...
When you publish a hard-hitting story containing links to lots of little-known documents, you never know what kind of bizarre blow-back you'll receive. The latest episode of reactive strangeness occurred following our...
