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CDC seasonal flu deaths and swine flu lack of deaths
All health agencies tend to exaggerate the threat of anything within their ambit, whether it's numbers or overall severity as we're currently seeingwith the WHO and its threats to declare swine flu a pandemic. That's in addition to including with their ambit that which clearly doesn't belong,such as the CDC expanding into gun deaths and ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by Fumento on May 14, 2009
Distiguishing between a Laminar flow cabinet and a BSC
It would be worth noting a laminar flow hood/cabinet provides absolutely no protection to the researcher pathogens of chemicals. The University of California Davis Safety Services Manual chapter five, section F adequately summarizes the shortcomings of a laminar flow cabinet when used with hazardous materials. ''Clean benches are ...
Posted to Explainer by camargue on May 7, 2009
Why Pigs are Dangerous
Egypt has recently called for culling the nation's pig population. This has led to mixed outrage and strange support. Poor Christian pig farmers in Egypt protested that pigs are their livelihood, claimed their pigs are healthy, and that its unfair. However, Coptic religious leaders have supported the cull. The largest opposition group in ...
Posted to Explainer by Usama3 on May 2, 2009
Why Pigs are Dangerous
Egypt has recently called for culling the nation's pig population. This has led to mixed outrage and strange support. Poor Christian pig farmers in Egypt protested that pigs are their livelihood, claimed their pigs are healthy, and that its unfair. However, Coptic religious leaders have supported the cull. The largest opposition group in ...
Posted to Science by Usama3 on May 2, 2009
sexually transmitted
More aggressive testing. More aggressive testing. Lower STD's.
Posted to What's Up, Doc by david wayne osedach on January 23, 2009
STD's
The CDC should also take into account the state of the economy. With so many people unemployed: what are these people up to?
Posted to What's Up, Doc by david wayne osedach on January 16, 2009
300,000 pgs evidence in Federal Omnibus Autism Proceedings
A nine-year-old controversy cannot be summarized or judged in few paragraphs. Please read ''Fighting the Autism War'' by Dr. Bernadine Healy, M.D., Health Editor for U.S. News & World Report (4/10/08). Dr. Healy is the: - Former director, National Institutes of Health - Member, President's Council of Advisers on Science &Technology ...
Posted to XX Factor by nhokkanen on April 26, 2008
Natural vs. synthetic
Tamiflu, the default drug to treat flu viruses, was developed by Gilead Sciences from an extract of Chinese Star Anise, a traditional remedy for colds and flu. The natural version of this compound is available in a supplement form called biotivia bioflu. The important difference between Bioflu and Tamiflu is that Tamiflu has been associated with ...
Posted to Explainer by Phytoresearcher on February 25, 2008