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...decades before they know if they have made the right choices. Foege, the former CDC director, compares what is happening in science today to the Middle Ages. "When you could finally bring the architects, the builders and the artisans together, you could finally build a cathedral," he says. "But the artisans working on the cathedrals knew they would never live to see them. And you can't see any evidence that their work suffered because of that...
...says. This year European nations pledged an astonishing $4 billion over 10 years to immunize children in poor countries--dwarfing the Gateses' $1.5 billion contribution. "When the history of global health is written," says Dr. William Foege, a former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who now advises the foundation, "the tipping point will be two people: Bill and Melinda Gates...
...reports on flu and flu mortality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had inconsistencies in data and misrepresentations to the public, said Peter N. Doshi, a student in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) who is writing his dissertation in Japanese medical history. His criticism appeared in a Dec. 10 article published in the British Medical Journal. Doshi’s article raised three main points of contention: an alleged misrepresentation on the CDC website, alleged inconsistencies in the CDC data, and a dubious causality between flu and deaths caused by pneumonia. Doshi...
...AIDS day, the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) hosted a screening of the film, “And the Band Played On,” and a talk by one of the first experts to discover the AIDS viral agent. Don Francis, whose research at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the early 1980s led to the identification of the AIDS virus, spoke of the history of AIDS and described the tensions at the CDC when gay men were dying of an unknown epidemic. He lamented in particular the “negative political forces from Washington...
...older vaccine got a new look when a CDC advisory panel backed the broader use of a vaccine for hepatitis A in 1- and 2-year-olds, estimating that routine use in children could cut the national caseload of the disease by 180,000. For teens and adults, the panel recommended a booster shot for pertussis, or whooping cough, a highly infectious, long-lasting illness that has been on the rise since 1976, particularly among adolescents. The shot could prevent 1 million cases a year...