Tag: Magazine Edition 16 Jan 2020

The Regenstrief Institute provides the backbone of the LOINC terminology system and jumped into action to help case tracking for ...

Japan’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Jan. 15 that a Chinese man in his 30s tested positive for ...

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services requesting information on steps the department ...

In 2019, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the World Economic Forum organized an international expert Working Group on Preventing Illicit ...

Using a single laser beam, Army researchers recently developed a technique capable of detecting and characterizing any type of airborne ...

Chinese health authorities release nCoV-2019 full genome; transparency facilitates global biosurveillance efforts. On January 11, 2020, Chinese health authorities preliminarily ...

Since December 2019, there has been a cluster of 59 cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, eastern China. The pneumonia is ...

Chinese state media on Saturday reported the first known death from a new virus that has infected dozens of people ...

OraSure and DiaSorin diagnostics received other classifications for use which removed them from EUA eligibility. The following is a summarized ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. When the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) School’s Joint Experimentation and ...

The following report from the Congressional Research Service was published on December 19, 2019. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is ...

Many health security threats involve bacteria or chemicals for which clinical trials cannot be performed in humans. To overcome this ...

At least 424 attacks on health care occurred in the DRC between January and November 2019. Numbers of reported incidents increased ...

We learned from the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola outbreaks that during the emergency, the future biosecurity implications of of sample ...

Assets are available to assist health authorities and healthcare facilities, including medical teams from the National Disaster Medical System and the U.S. Public Health ...

A host of disease-causing viruses called arenaviruses lurk in animal populations in various parts of the world, sometimes crossing over ...

Monoclonal antibodies can mediate protection against Ebola virus (EBOV) infection through direct neutralization as well as through the recruitment of ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has selected Emory University to lead a new effort aimed at ...

Francisella tularensis, also called rabbit fever, is an equal opportunity pathogen: it causes the disease tularemia in humans, rabbits and ...

Five miles from the border with the Republic of Ireland, there’s a longstanding belief among parishioners that the earth Father ...