Showing posts with label HHS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HHS. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

HHS Contracts With Mapp Bio To Develop Experimental Ebola Drug

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  # 9031     Although it is far from certain that the experimental monoclonal antibody cocktail called ZMapp is both safe, and eff...
Sunday, July 07, 2013

Pandemic Planning For Business

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Credit TFAH   It's Not Flu As Usual Brochure     # 7455   Six years ago, before the H1N1 pandemic emerged in 2009, we were ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

HHS: Call For Public Comment On H5N1 Research

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID      # 6639     During the first half of 2012, the big infectious disease story was...
Friday, June 08, 2012

CDC Statement On OIG Report On Vaccine Program For Children

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    # 6373   Earlier this week the HHS ’s OIG (Office of Inspector General) released a critical report on the CDC’s VFC program ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

IOM Report On Vaccine Safety Concerns

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    # 5884   It is no secret that vaccines, like all drugs and medications , can cause adverse effects in some subset of their re...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

HHS Facebook Programming Challenge

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      # 5774     Nearly thirty years ago I made a fairly good living as a computer programmer. Of course, things weren’t quite ...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

HHS Proposal To Improve Human Medical Research

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      # 5711   The HHS ’s Office For Human Research Protection ( OHRP ), while not widely known by the public, is charged wit...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

CDC Grand Rounds Webcast: Electronic Health Records

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    # 5706     As I’ve mentioned before, once a month the CDC   presents a Public Health Grand Rounds webcast, on a wide spect...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Video: H5N1 – The Next Pandemic?

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    # 5682     Although the H5N1 bird flu virus has slipped out of the daily headlines, federal agencies such as Homeland Secur...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Promising Practices & Pandemic Toolkits

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      # 5316   While the pandemic of 2009 has receded, many government agencies, public and private organizations, and individuals...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

HHS Webcast Today: Pregnant Women And Flu

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    # 4979     The HHS & CDC   will hold a special webcast later today – hosted on Flu.gov – with information directed to...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Influenza Social Media Toolkits

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      # 4973     With the 2010-2011 Northern Hemisphere influenza season upon us, the CDC and the HHS are providing a number o...
Monday, September 27, 2010

2010 Flu Season: A Look Ahead

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      # 4942     Tomorrow ( Tuesday Sept 28th,2010 ) the CDC will broadcast a live video event on their Flu.gov website.   ...