Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
... University, who has been researching the 1918 flu pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. Higgins, who came to Lehigh after earning his B.A. in history and sociology at St. Vincent's College and his M.A. in history at Duquesne University, has spent the last several years combing through ...National and regional leadership needed to coordinate response to avian flu pandemic
...vian influenza pandemic. The Lancet comments: "The pandemic of 191819 affected 20% of the world's population a...at is already looking like an inevitable influenza pandemic may be as deadly as that which struck in 1918."...NIAID launches first Phase II trial of a 'global' HIV/AIDS vaccine
...didate that is broadly relevant to the global AIDS pandemic because it combines components of HIV strains found throughout the world," says VRC Director Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D. "We look forward to working with our partners in the United States and abroad as we take this vaccine into the next phase of clinical...CHEST 2005 hosts world experts in pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine
...rent topics as disaster medicine, lung cancer, and pandemic influenza." New sessions and event highlights this...kouts, hurricanes, and emerging epidemics, such as pandemic flu and SARS. Literature Review Sessions Experts will highlight the top pulmonary and critical ca...Large tularemia vaccine contracts among new NIAID biodefense awards
...including anthrax, smallpox and viruses that cause pandemic influenza Cooperative Research program awards to stimulate research requiring multidisciplinary effort to advance promising candidate vaccines, therapeutics and other products through the product development pathway Small Business Biodefense progra...Promote use of drugs to prevent AIDS infection, researchers urge
... proven prevention interventions are used, the HIV pandemic will not be stopped solely by talking to those at risk," they wrote. "Clinical trials of daily oral antiretroviral dosing as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or 'PrEP,' have been initiated in Africa, Asia and the United States and are planned in Latin Ameri...Resistance to anti-flu agents increasing worldwide
...planning to stockpile these drugs for epidemic and pandemic strains of influenzaWith the increasing rates of r...ive for treatment or prophylaxis in the event of a pandemic outbreak of influenza." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...Researchers model avian flu outbreak, impact of interventions
..." he explained. "The consequences of an H5N1-based pandemic could be catastrophic." With bird flu continuing ...ent knowledge of how diseases spread: Preventing a pandemic would require a combination of carefully implemented public health measures introduced soon after th...Mouse studies of oseltamivir show promise against H5N1 influenza virus
..." says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "If a pandemic occurs, it will take months to manufacture and distribute a vaccine to all who need it." In its study, the St. Jude research team gave one of three possible daily dosage levels of oseltamivir or a placebo to mice infected with H5N1 influenza virus. T...Johns Hopkins AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS
.../AIDS," Quinn writes, whereas, at the start of the pandemic in the early 1980s, men accounted for almost 90 percent of cases in developed countries. In the United States from 1999 to 2003, the yearly increase in AIDS cases rose by 15 percent, but only by 1 percent in men. "HIV/AIDS first targeted gay men and...Oslo press event launches 46664 Arctic and spearheads a four-day spotlight on Africa
...aders the means to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to fight HIV/AIDS and other deadly preventable...whose main focus is to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic and to fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases, many of which can be prevented with vaccines. These activ...Politicians bury their heads in the sand while global flu threat mounts
... the practicalities of dealing with an epidemic or pandemic of influenza. Avian flu is now a true threat to the world's population, Dr Higson concludes. Planning from world leaders to prevent it and deal with its consequences is now vital....Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...ld the capacity of targeted countries to fight the pandemic over the long run. The dearth of qualified health care workers in many low-income nations is often the biggest roadblock in mounting effective responses to public health needs. In January 2003 President Bush announced the President's Emergency Plan ...IOM report should end nevirapine controversy, HIVMA says
...mission in the many places hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic where no other alternative is available," says obstetrician/gynecologist Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, member of the HIVMA Board of Directors and an AIDS researcher working in the Philippines, Cambodia, and India. "Now we all need to turn our attention to gett......uipping and re-emergence" of a clone that caused a pandemic 40-50 years ago could mean that community acquired...n children and young adults around the world. This pandemic of both hospital and community acquired infections waned throughout the 1960s as the antibiotic meti...