Together pledge $100 million to fight preventable diseases in Afghanistan and Pakistan SEATTLE and ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & […]
Government Pills
By Ronald Bailey Government expands on failure. All too often, government failure is treated as evidence that we need more government. Instead, government failure indicates that we should look for alternative results in the competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, the creation of the new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is a near perfect example of […]
EpiVax receives $458,000 NIH grant to develop universal influenza vaccine
By PBN staff PROVIDENCE – EpiVax Inc. said Tuesday it has received a $458,000, two-year grant to develop a universal influenza vaccine. “There is an urgent, unmet need for an influenza vaccine with greater potency and wider application to diverse flu viruses that can also be developed more rapidly than conventional influenza vaccines,” said Dr. […]
NIH should not be a pharmaceutical company
By Tevi Troy The National Institutes of Health recently announced that it would be engaging in a billion-dollar effort to encourage the development of new pharmaceutical therapies. The New York Times headline for this story sounded innocuous: “Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines.” But not everyone is so sanguine about this effort. Fox News, […]
New Discovery Could Lead to Vaccines for Plague and Bacterial Pneumonias
Originally posted in Infection Control Today There is an ongoing battle in the “war on terror” that remains mostly unseen to the public — a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a weapon. “Governments remain concerned that bioweapons of aerosolized […]
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