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Suspected Bird Flu Case in Nigeria

January 31, 2007 on 8:36 pm | In avian flu | Comments Off It's worrisome that a Nigerian woman who died recently has tested positive for infection with H5N1 or the bird flu virus. But I'm still waiting to hear confirmation from the World Health Organization. We won't learn anything that's really significant--such...

What Makes a Hospital?

January 30, 2007 on 8:08 pm | In technology | Comments Off Just how basic are the basic health care needs of men, women and children in the poorest parts of the world? It's not enough simply to have access to medicine. You have to have the doctors and nurses who can...

Bio Threats Go Both Ways

January 25, 2007 on 8:48 pm | In public health | Comments Off Perhaps it's books and movies like the Hot Zone, which showed hemorrhagic fever spreading from central Africa to the West, but there's long been a perception that bio threats begin in the developing world and mostly threaten the rich parts...

Iraqibacter Bug Threatens Wounded Troops

January 22, 2007 on 10:52 pm | In public health | Comments Off Florence Nightingale could have predicted this. A growing number of antibiotic-resistant germs are turning up in the war wounds of U.S. combat troops in Iraq. Along with the usual drug-resistant staph and strep varieties, there is now a major hospital-bred...

Art meets Chemistry

January 20, 2007 on 4:23 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments Off