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Posted on: Friday, 6 November 2009, 07:30 CST RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company advancing orally-available antiviral therapeutics to address life-threatening...
Link: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0910151?query=TOC Published at www.nejm.org November 4, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0910151) Mandatory Vaccination of Health Care Workers Alexandra M. Stewart, J.D. Mandatory...
NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SIGA Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGA), a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to fight bio-warfare pathogens, today announced that Dr. Dennis E. Hruby,...
There are two potential benefits to vaccine. In 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner published his research on smallpox prevention. Noting the common observation that milkmaids did not generally get smallpox, Jenner theorized that the pus in...
Nancy Ward and the Cherokee Nation Smallpox took the lives of almost one-half of the Cherokee people. During this period, Nanye-hi, or Nancy Ward, was born. Her later courage earned her the title, Ghighau. She was an agent of...
MASS vaccination against tuberculosis - a practice abandoned more than 20 years ago in Australia - should be reconsidered, following evidence it could slash the risk of melanoma by as much as 60 per cent.
People wait in line to receive the H1N1 vaccine in Haltom City, Tex. Reuters The alarm over H1N1 pales beside the battles over smallpox – especially in 19th-century Montreal Public health is often a battleground. The practice...
People are right to be sceptical about the swine-flu scare, but it is telling – and worrying – that they focus their scepticism on swine-flu jabs. In the climate of fear that has been promoted around the swine flu pandemic, the...
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 26, 2009) - International Security Conference -- Boston-based BioDefense Corporation and producer of MailDefender ( www.biod.com ) and Biotest Laboratories, Inc, of Minneapolis, MN (...
This week: marking a supreme medical anniversary, using relaxation techniques for pain, and how to deal with sweaty feet. Creation of a vaccine eradicated smallpox from the world Photo: GETTY IMAGES Today marks the thirtieth...
