Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ure natural or manmade disasters, particularly for pandemic threats. Caring for a Surge of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Primary Care Clinics By Thomas D. Edwards, D.O., et al. ADVERSE LITIGATION DOES NOT ALTER FUTURE BEHAVIOR OF CLINICIANS The impact of a lost legal case did not have an effect on physici...A year of added life more valuable for the young, study suggests
..., such as the allocation of avian flu vaccine in a pandemic or mandatory HPV vaccinations for young women, require policy makers to decide healthcare priorities for different age groups Yet economic methods used to allocate health care dollars and other resources may substantially undervalue childhood inter...Public health and pandemic flu preparedness to headline Preventive Medicine 2007
...nd security, and the release earlier this month of pandemic flu preparedness guidelines by the Centers for Dis...l climate in securing our nations health against a pandemic flu outbreak and explore the roles and functions of national, state, and local governments in collab...Preventive Medicine 2007 to feature research and practice findings to improve public health
Uninsured Americans, pandemic flu, obesity, health care quality, HIV, vaccine development, and public health preparedness are among the top issues and concerns preventive medicine and public health leaders will address as they gather at the American College of Preventive Medicine...Flu experts call for mandatory shots for health care workers
...n the United States alone. Even a "mild" influenza pandemic is expected to kill 100,000 to 250,000 Americans, and a severe pandemic could kill 2 million. Health care workers caring for sick patients are routinely exposed to influenz...Bird flu -- Call for antiviral drugs to be shared
...o model the global spread of an emerging influenza pandemic and its containment. They conclude that much will depend on the 'reproductive number' (a measure of how many people an infectious individual infects on average) of the new virus that emerges. If this number is low, it will take many months before the...Drug resistance in an influenza pandemic
... large fraction of the population is a key part of pandemic preparedness of many countries. However, it is kno...s that wide-spread use of antiviral drugs during a pandemic carries a substantial risk of resistance emerging and resistant influenza strains causing illness in...NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial
...ted effort to understand and find new solutions to pandemic influenza is part of the NIAID commitment to respond to new emerging infectious disease threats and to improve public health preparedness." Highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses, specifically H5N1, have emerged in the past decade, causing wid...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...cs and immune-based therapies against seasonal and pandemic influenza because it reveals in molecular detail e...ing antibodies. Antibodies induced by seasonal and pandemic flu viruses or vaccines are a major component of immunity that protects against these viruses. St...Pandemic influenza may cause an extra 62 million deaths a year
...eveloping world - could die in a year if a similar pandemic were to occur today. They report their findings in... of The Lancet. The threat of an avian influenza pandemic is causing widespread public concern. Estimates of potential mortality from a major influenza pandem...Dr. Msiska, UN leader in the worldwide fight to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS, to speak at Stevens
...d by journalist Bill Moyers regarding the HIV/AIDS pandemic on an edition of the PBS series NOW. Bishop Desmond Tutu was also a participant in that program. ...Hajj pilgrims should get flu jab to avoid pandemic
...rampant spread of the influenza virus and a global pandemic a potentially devastating prospect that has been i... the authors. Given this fact and the risks of a pandemic originating from the Hajj, mandatory influenza vaccination for all pilgrims should be considered, th...Australian researchers win $2 million
... vaccine strategies for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, pandemic influenza, malaria and some types of cancer. Dr Doolan is a visiting scientist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). She is also currently the Scientific Director of the Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), in Si...Preparing for an influenza pandemic: A triage protocol in the face of limited resources
...d a renewed emphasis on preparing for an influenza pandemic in humans. As we saw with SARS, any catastrophic o...s during the initial days to weeks of an influenza pandemic if the critical care system becomes overwhelmed. The protocol would apply to all patients, not just ...Inexpensive test detects H5N1 infections quickly and accurately
...l Chemistry. "Concerns about a possible influenza pandemic make it imperative that we continue to devise reliable and easy-to-use diagnostic tests for H5N1 that can be employed on-site where outbreaks are suspected," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "The MChip developed by Dr. Rowlen and her collea...Georgetown establishes leading institute for global and national health law
...raft its model public health law and guidelines on pandemic influenza. Gostin is currently the chairman of the...ethical aspects of public health interventions for pandemic influenza. Developing disease surveillance initiatives to strengthen the capacity of health care...In case of pandemic flu majority of Americans willing to make major changes in their lives
...y finds that when faced with a serious outbreak of pandemic flu, a large majority of Americans are willing to ...sily from person to person. Currently, there is no pandemic flu, but health officials are concerned that the H5N1 avian flu which has caused about 250 illnesses...Who should receive vaccines and antiviral drugs in the event of a flu pandemic?
...ave prioritized neither vaccine nor drugs in their pandemic influenza preparedness plans. In the first study...ng for antivirals may prove to be more critical to pandemic preparedness." The researchers found that that the allocation decisions varied across different co...Latest influenza science and recommendations presented in new release
... of the most current and definitive information on pandemic and seasonal influenza, from antivirals and vaccin...rberding, MD, MPH, describes her agency's plan for pandemic control as "a network of shared responsibility from the national to the global level." Frederick G....Study recommends strategies for distributing flu vaccine during shortage
... to have a large vaccine supply if a new strain of pandemic flu emerges in human populations, this study offers quantitatively grounded recommendations for public health officials who may be forced to make rapid life-and-death decisions," says Meyers....