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HHS sponsors contest for Web app to identify local health trends

(HHS News) The person or team developing the best application will receive $21,000 from ASPR as well as a $1,000 travel stipend to attend an event announcing the winner. In addition, the winner will be invited to present the winning tool at a Fusion Forum, a discussion series sponsored by ASPR’s Fusion Cell for state Read More »

March 20, 2012
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Overuse of antibiotics means that a scraped knee could become deadly, WHO warns

(GlobalPost) Before antibiotics were invented, even minor infections could become extremely dangerous. But now scientists say that antibiotics are not as effective as they used to be. In a new conference this week, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan sounded the alarm on antibiotic resistance, caused by excessive use of the drugs.

March 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Flu Debate Highlights Opacity of Public Health Research

(PLoS Blogs) After weeks of debate, the decision was finally made in February to publish in full two studies that report the cultivation of H5N1 bird flu virus mutants that can pass between mammals. The decision was made with the caveat of delaying publication, in part to settle the anxieties of the public over the Read More »

March 16, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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New strain of hemorrhagic fever virus found on Jeju Island

(The Dong-a Ilbo) A new strain of epidemic hemorrhagic fever has been found on Jeju Island, the first time that the infectious disease has broken out on a Korean island. A team of researchers led by Song Jin-won, a microbiology professor at the College of Medicine of Korea University in Seoul, said Tuesday that a Read More »

March 16, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Public Health
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Talk of Food Safety Consolidation Takes Bipartisan Turn

(Food Safety News) U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, a conservative Republican from Wyoming, is starting to sound a lot like her colleague Rep. Rose DeLauro, a liberal Democrat from Connecticut — at least when it comes to fixing the nation’s fragmented food safety system. Citing a Government Accountability Office report on the issue, Rep. Lummis argued Read More »