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Officials expect more?and bigger?seizures of fake Tamiflu. "We believe they will continue to go up dramatically," says CBP's William Heffelfinger. If past experience is any guide, the pills will contain no more than trace elements of Tamiflu's active ingredient. Less than a month ago, authorities in San Francisco announced the confiscation of 51 packages of phony Tamiflu ordered through the Internet and shipped from Asia. Tests on those pills found only harmless ingredients, but experts worry that in an outbreak, people might take such pills and consider themselves protected...
...many of the egg donors, some of whom said they had not been told they were part of a study, and confirmed that their eggs had been paid for. MBC was also hot on the trail of something even bigger: a tip that Hwang's 2005 Science paper might contain fraudulent data. To verify the allegations, MBC requested samples of the stem cells, which Hwang provided. Pursuing their lead, the journalists tracked down two of three researchers from Hwang's lab who had gone to the University of Pittsburgh to work with his American collaborator and co-author, Dr. Gerald...
...Schmugar points out that while the threat is very real, it's contained up to now by the fact that only a small group of websites, well off the beaten path of most surfers, contain the malicious code. "The chances of you going to one of these sites is pretty low," he says, adding, "We're not aware of a mass spamming of this exploit at this time." Still, he cautions, anything could happen. "We'll just have to wait...
...wouldn't know it to read the papers, but doctors have lately been scrambling to contain a growing epidemiological brushfire, one caused by a nasty little bug almost none of us have heard of but too many of us could encounter soon. The pathogen is known as Clostridium difficile-or C. diff as the scientists call it-a bacterium that used to confine itself to elderly or very ill hospital patients, causing severe diarrhea and nausea. A few doses of antibiotics used to be all it took to knock...
...This semester the Caucus has served as an important voice in faculty politics, through two high-profile letters that, although not representing any official view of the Caucus, were organized by the Caucus and contain the signatures of many Caucus members...