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View Post: Establishing the Public Health Bureaucracy : OUPblog
7 Jan 2009
This survey convinced him that the way to prevent smallpox was to have an active policy of free vaccination. During his years in office, Simon gradually became disillusioned with persuasion as a tool to achieve public health ends, ...
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View Post: PANDEMIC !
22 Dec 2008 by admin  
Scientists Identify Genes Critical to Transmission of Bubonic Plague, National Institute of Health (NIH) News, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), July 18, 1996. ...
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View Post: Toxic Ingredients in Soap - Part 2
29 Dec 2008 by Small Footprints  
In one study, recently accepted for publication in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives and made available online, Isaac Pessah, PhD, director of the UC Davis Children's Center for Environmental Health, looked at how triclosan ...
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View Post: Project Disaster » Blog Archive » How do FDA recalls work?
23 hours ago
FDA generally does not issue a press release or expect the company to issue a press release for Class II recalls, unless there is a specific need to do so (for example, if the device could affect the health of a large number of people, ...
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View Post: Santa Gets a Little Help from Eq... ( DALLAS Jan. 2 /- Employees ...
3 Jan 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released... impact that environmental factors have on health,... could be prevented every year by making environme...e inequalities but also demonstrate that in every . ...
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View Post: the works of who
26 Aug 2008 by drjupitor  
the global eradication of small pox is the brightest example of international health cooperation. with the same energy and commitment with which who eradicated smallpox, it is now directing the global battle against aids. ...
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View Post: The Costs of Terrorism Hysteria « unsettling economics
20 Aug 2006
Certainly, anthrax and smallpox do not exhaust the lethal possibilities of bio-warfare. At the same time, restoring our deplorably underfunded public health system to a reasonable level would do far more to protect the public from ...
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View Post: Effect Measure : Dracunculiasis: death of the fiery serprent
7 Dec 2008 by revere none@example.com  
Health experts hope that next year may see the last reported cases of the parasitic illness, which would make it the second infection -- after smallpox -- to be eliminated from the world. (AP via Yahoo News) ...
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View Post: Oregon Biz Report » OHSU Research Generated Four New Startups in 2008
2 Jan 2009 by admin  
Najit also is addressing re-emerging diseases with bioterrorism potential such as smallpox and monkeypox. Its technology is based on discoveries by Mark Slifka, Ph.D., an associate scientist at OHSU’s Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, ...
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