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Biodefense System Overhaul Was Necessary, HHS Secretary Says
WASHINGTON — A planned $1.9 billion revamp of the nation’s medical countermeasure enterprise was overdue as government scientists were using decades old technology to confront new and emerging biological threats, a senior Obama administration official said here last week (see GSN, Sept. 24). (Sep. 27) – Workers on a vaccine production line in 2009. U.S. Read More »
- September 27, 2010
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New Biodefense Office, Existing Agency Could Cover Same Ground
An Obama administration plan to establish a “strategic investment firm” for promoting development of biological-weapon and other disease countermeasures could raise questions over division of responsibilities with a Health and Human Services Department agency engaged in related work, Congressional Quarterly reported Wednesday (see GSN, Aug. 20).Unlike the existing Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which Read More »
- September 24, 2010
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New $186.6 million contract shows anthrax threat real
In an indication that the threat of an anthrax outbreak as a result of bioterrorism remains a major priority for the Obama administration, Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions received a contract valued at up to $186.6 million from the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a recombinant protective antigen anthrax vaccine, which is likely to Read More »
- September 23, 2010
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Vaccine work offers protection against weaponized plague bacteria
Plague has been used as a weapon since the Middle Ages, when armies would hurl plague-infested bodies over castle walls; more recently, the United States, Japan, and the former Soviet Union have all studied the use of Y. pestis as a biological warfare agent; new research on the immune system’s response to plague could improve Read More »
- September 23, 2010
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DHS Gives NY $18 million for Radiation Detection System
AP/PhysOrg.com. ) A report says treatment has improved substantially at U.S. hospitals for several ailments including heart attacks, pneumonia and…
- September 23, 2010
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