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PharmAthene Completes Dosing in Valortim® Phase I Clinical Trial – PR Newswire (press release)

PharmAthene Completes Dosing in Valortim® Phase I Clinical TrialPR Newswire (press release)"In preclinical animal studies Valortim® has been shown to protect both rabbits and monkeys against the lethal effects of anthrax infection when administered…

April 14, 2011
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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Army Starts Clinical Testing of Ricin Vaccine

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases on Wednesday announced the beginning of a clinical evaluation of a potential vaccine against the biological agent ricin (see GSN, April 16, 2010). The Phase 1 trial is intended to examine the safety of the ricin vaccine candidate and its capacity to produce an immune reaction Read More »

April 13, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Research
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Information sharing seen as public health “game changer”

Public health officials are pushing for the creation of shared databases that contain electronic health records (EHRs) to help combat infectious diseases and stop epidemics; a CDC official pointed to the positive impact that electronic health information exchanges (HIE) have on public health; during the 2003 SARS outbreak, Milwaukee helped establish a four-state network that Read More »

April 13, 2011
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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BWC Review Conference Chairman Aims to Bolster Treaty Regime

WASHINGTON — The Biological Weapons Convention review conference this year should look at ways to strengthen the international prohibition against the offensive use of disease materials, according to the chairman of the upcoming meeting

April 13, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Federal Food Safety Agencies Spared Major Cuts

Key food safety agencies will likely escape major budget cuts for the remainder of the fiscal year, according to new details released by Congressional appropriators.Though lawmakers reached an historic agreement late last Friday to avoid federal government shutdown up against an expiring stop-gap budget measure, the details of the roughly $38 billion in cuts in Read More »