Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center receives CDC contract
ATLANTA The Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center has received a contract of approximately $2.2 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct clinical trials of promising topical microbicides to prevent HIV. The phase I and II clinical trials, which will begin recruiting patients later this year, will be the first of their kind in Atlanta to evaluate the safety...CDC Telebriefing: Smallpox educational activities and West Nile Virus update
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of CDC, and Drs. Lyle Peterson and Dan O'Leary, West Nile Virus experts ...... To discuss smallpox vaccine educational activities/update on smallpox vaccine plan and West Nile Virus update, respectively. Brief remarks followed by Q/A. ...... Thursday, December 19, 2002; NOON ET ...... At your desk, by toll-free conference line: Dial 866-254-5942 ...Telecon...School of public health launches CDC Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a National Center of Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking. The Center will play a critical role in the new CDC environmental public health tracking initiative. The initiative will develop a national electronic network to identify and monit...CDC MMWR: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Cutaneous Anthrax in a Lab Worker
CDC Media Relations 404-639-3286...... ......Dr. Nancy Rosenstein, CDC anthrax expert and Dr. Elena Page, CDC occupational safety expert...... To discuss two articles in this weeks Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Alcohol Use Among Women of Childbearing Age and Suspected Cutaneous Anthrax in a Laboratory Worker- Texas, 2002...... April is Alcohol Awareness Month. CDC reports that rat...CDC MMWR; tularemia and its potential use as a biological weapon
Drs. Katherine Feldman and Ned Hayes, CDC zoonotic disease experts...... To discuss this weeks Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article, Tularemia United States, 1990-2000. ...... Drs. Feldman and Hayes will discuss naturally occurring tularemia in the United States and its potential use as a biological weapon. Understanding the patterns of tularemia enables public healt...Media advisory: CDC flu update teleconference
... ...... Dr. Keiji Fukuda, CDC influenza expert... ... Dr. Fukuda will provide an update on influenza and vaccine issues.... ...Brief remarks followed by media Q/A. ... ... Friday, December 21, 2001; 1 2 PM EST ... ... At your desk, by toll-free conference line: Dial (800) 288-8968 ...Teleconference name: CDC ... ... Get the most recent information about influenza and vaccin...Dr. Carolyn Bridges, CDC influenza expert...... ......Brief remarks followed by media Q/A. ...... Friday, December 7, 2001; 1 2 PM EST ...... At your desk, by toll-free conference line: Dial 800-288-8968...Teleconference name: CDC ...... Get the most recent information about influenza and influenza vaccine issues...........CDC update about anthrax investigations
WHO: Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... ...WHAT: Dr. Koplan will discuss current information about CDCs response to anthrax investigations. ... ...Brief remarks followed by media Q/A. ... ...WHEN: Wednesday, November 7, 2001; 12 Noon 12:45 PM EST ... ...WHERE: At your desk, by toll-free conference line: Dial 866-254-5942...Teleconference name: CDC/anthra...NIDA, CSAT, CDC sponsor conference on drug use, HIV and hepatitis
..."Drug Use, HIV and Hepatitis: Bringing It All Together" will unite researchers and practitioners from campuses and communities across the country to address these inter-related and urgent public health issues. The driving force behind this conference, May 7-10, 2000, at the Baltimore Convention Center, is to reduce the incidence of chronic infectious diseases among drug users, to facilitat...ASM statements on FY 2001 federal budget proposal: NIH, CDC, NSF
.WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is releasing the following statements on the Administration's proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 federal budget for biological research programs supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).. .The ASM is the largest single life science...Are CDC's 1997 Recommendations For Targeted Lead Screening Of Children Justified?
In the January/February issue of Public Health Reports, researchers from...the University of Maryland's School of Medicine argue that CDC's recent...revision of its lead screening recommendations for children which calls for...local screening decisions as opposed to universal screening are insupportable...given that "lead remains the greatest environmental threat to children in the...Unit...