Panel Reveals Horrific Details of US-Funded Guatemalan VD Experiments
A Presidential commission, charged with investigating the US-funded VD experiments on Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients in the mid-1940s, revealed some of its...
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Head-Nodding Syndrome Increases in South Sudan
A rare and poorly understood form of pediatric epilepsy, head-nodding syndrome is spreading in the new nation of South Sudan,* reports Meredith Wadman of Nature. CDC...
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Cephalosporin-Resistant Gonorrhea Increases in the United States
On Friday, the CDC reported the growing resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes (not surprisingly) gonorrhea, to the class of antibiotics called...
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WHO on Germany’s E. Coli Outbreak
WHO provides the who…what, where, when, and why (but not the how) on the deadly outbreak of enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Who: As of yesterday afternoon, 2648 cases...
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MS Activity Quickly Returns to Baseline After Stopping Tysabri
Given the not-inconsequential risk of PML with Tysabri (natalizumab) use in multiple sclerosis—particularly with prolonged use—neurologists have taken the unproven...
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TB Gets Historical Print Award
Wasting a lot of time, indeed, with the Google Ngram Viewer—as predicted today by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline. My graphic survey (below, from 1800 to 2000), based on...
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