Archive for the 'Epidemiology' Category
Coverage by the Boston Globe of an ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) cluster in Southeastern MA. Not regular news coverage, but this is an OP-Ed, about Public Health (!):
Disease cluster mystery
October 14, 2007
FOR MORE than 20 years, health officials have known about a puzzling concentration of the neurodegenerative illness known as Lou Gehrig’s disease [...]
An interesting site, Who is sick, collects data from folks who volunteer the symptoms of their sickness. It then displays this information, in a clear, graphic way, which conveys a few of the key symptoms by use of a color-coded pie chart. Seems like a site that has the potential, if [...]
A story in The Scientist by Katherine Eban about the woefully inadequate disease surveillance efforts in the USA. In particular, the media have started to play their necessary role, as discussed here.
In an earlier discussion I had started over at Freedom to Tinker about the lack of an effective syndromic surveillance system, [...]
Well, it appears that Indonesia is wondering why it should continue it’s efforts obtaining, identifying, processing and purifying bird flu samples, if WHO is going to give them to just a few Western big pharmaceutical concerns, so those concerns can in turn patent the resulting vaccines, and later extract monopoly prices, and in the process [...]
Mark C R UK asks, in response to my post Posse Comitatus, Requiescat In Pace:
“But how many functional enemies willing to disperse such agents and have the (alarming) patience to wait for for years before mortality begins?”
And this questions fits right in with the subject of a [...]
Towards Freedom: Bush Moves Towards Martial Law
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability [...]
Well here we have real irresponsibility, and it’s just one of many examples of the USA health infrastructure falling to sub-standard oversight. In typical fashion, this has received almost no press coverage, and caters to the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the mega-food manufacturers, ignoring the advice of the American Medical Association and [...]
Updates of 28 October 2007 are italicized
Well here we have real irresponsibility, and it’s just one of many examples of the USA health infrastructure falling to sub-standard oversight. In typical fashion, this has received almost no press coverage, and caters to the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the mega-food manufacturers, ignoring the [...]
Well, just a slight ripple in the press, about the lack of preparedness for a bio-terror event, and the glacial pace that the authorities are preparing for such an event is contrasted with the near certainty among those leaders polled that a bio-terror attack is likely within the next 5 years. This [...]
Here’s a story that I’ll follow. It’s about an outbreak of Pertussis in Boston, only it turns out it really wasn’t Pertussis, nobody knows what it is. I had postulated that a free press is a key element to bringing public resources to bear on health issues, and to the ultimate [...]
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