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...STAPH It's still experimental, but scientists have developed the first vaccine against staph. The news comes none too soon: staph is one of the commonest--and deadliest--infections patients pick up in the hospital. In tests so far, the vaccine cut in half the incidence of staph among dialysis patients. Researchers hope that eventually all patients undergoing major surgery will be inoculated...
...National Cancer Institute, was one scientist determined to be a household name. He had a killer on his hands, AIDS, a major federally financed laboratory for research and the unceasing desire for the glory of solving the mystery of the world’s newest and potentially deadliest threat...
...such scrutiny? Because USAMRIID handles the deadliest pathogens known to man, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever--and, of course, anthrax. It was at Fort Detrick that the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons was manufactured in the 1960s, and at USAMRIID that research into deadly germs was concentrated for the next three decades...
Last week was the deadliest one for U.S. soldiers since this war began. We know this because the headlines told us of the seven Marines who died when their KC-130 Hercules slammed into a mountain in Pakistan. But we know more than this...
Today the medical landscape has been transformed beyond recognition. The drugs are smarter, the surgical tools more powerful, the diagnostic tests astonishingly precise. Today most of the deadliest diseases of 1900 are routinely cured or managed, and it's the choice not to be hospitalized that's often a decision to give up on life...