After seriously undercutting the FBI claims about Bruce Ivins’ guilt 5 days ago, the DOJ revised its filing yesterday in the case brought by Bob Stevens’ wife against the government. Marcy Wheeler provides great details and links to the filing and other useful documents.
From Mike Wiser, Greg Gordon and Stephen Engelberg come the following story : Justice Department lawyers filed a brief on July 15 that said Bruce Ivins did not have access to equipment in the Fort Detrick hot suites that would have enabled him to make the dried anthrax found in…
by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age. 1 , 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to…
There has been plenty written about the nefarious tactics of Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp (and other publications) to get the dirt on celebs, politicians, and anyone unfortunate enough to be newsworthy.
From Matt Appuzzo at the AP, published in the Washington Post, comes this amusing piece: WASHINGTON — In his 2009 speech to the Muslim world, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to eradicate polio, which persists in three Muslim countries. One of the biggest hurdles had been persuading some…
Although the DHHS recently field-tested an informed consent document for parents (whose children were sought for an anthrax vaccine clinical trial in the Washington, DC public schools) it was reported that so far there were no takers.
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain side, Let freedom ring. [1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being…
I hate to say “I told you so” but here it is, from the NY Times.
This June 23, 2011 article by Marcia Angell , a former NEJM editor and a Harvard professor of medicine, is a must-read .