Non-Medical Obstacles Impacting Public Health Responses
The standard view of public health usually involves the portrayal of health care workers in lab coats peering into microscopes ...
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Why the Scientific Debate Over a UW Bird Flu Study Isn’t Going Away
A University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory is set to resume experiments that could build the foundation of an early warning system ...
‘TIS the Way to Transport a Highly Contagious Patient by Air
U.S. Air Force personnel conducted training on the Transportation Isolation System (TIS), an enclosure the Defense Department can use to ...
#ThisISOurLane: Gun Violence and the Role of Infectious Diseases Clinicians
A tweet from the National Rifle Association (NRA) advising “self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” has prompted physicians ...
CDC Fiscal Year 2019 Broad Agency Announcement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works with its partners to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, ...
Whooping Cough: Tulane Awarded $8.5M to Develop Next-Generation Pertussis Vaccine
Tulane University researchers are developing a vaccine formulation that may provide longer lasting immunity in fewer doses against pertussis, more ...
Mobile Diagnostic: FDA Authorizes Use of First Ebola Fingerstick Test with Portable Reader
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on 9 Nov that an emergency use authorization (EUA) has been issued for ...
Landmark Ebola Study Provides Deep Scan of Therapeutic Antibody Combinations
A one-two punch of powerful antibodies may be the best way to stop Ebola virus, reports an international team of ...
Virologists Use Genetic Trees to Evaluate Ebola Intervention Strategies
The phylogenetic tree of the Ebola epidemic of 2013-2016 doesn’t just tell us how the Ebola virus was able to ...
Combatting Cybercrime is Critical for Life Science Companies
The threat to medical devices may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but in the US healthcare is now ...
Vincent Tang Honored for Work on SIGMA Radiological Threat Sensor Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer and physicist Vincent Tang as a Program ...
Turnkey Detection: Rapid Diagnostics in the Field
Health care providers need an assay that detects the nucleic acids, the DNA or RNA from the pathogen, in both ...
