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...official warnings about bird flu have been growing scarier in the past few days. In a speech last Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt advised folks to stock up on tuna fish and powdered milk in case the bird flu virus mutates into a form that could easily infect people. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns recently told reporters, "It would be almost biblical to think we would be protected." Then there was Robert Webster, the noted flu virologist from St. Jude Children's Research Center, who said on national television Tuesday night that he had a three-month supply...
They are taking seriously the bipartisan calls from states to be reimbursed for the tens of millions of dollars in emergency funds states have set aside to cover the gaps in Part D coverage. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt spent last week on damage-control patrol, trying to placate anxious seniors and state lawmakers angry about footing the bill for Medicare's mistakes. Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe said Leavitt reassured her on Friday that the Federal Government would use its authority to compel insurance plans to reimburse the states directly. Maine has spent $5 million...
...product is actually marketed.) More controversial, the bill would make it virtually impossible for individuals to sue for damages caused by any drug deemed a bioterrorism countermeasure, and BARDA would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, keeping its work largely veiled from public scrutiny. HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has said new liability protections should apply only to vaccines and medicines for pandemic flu, which is likely to delay action on Burr's "BioShield 2" bill until next year...
...however, called growth “flat. Totally flat.” “People are not coming to Harvard Square to shop any more,” Cardullo said. “There’s no draw from eclectic stores.” Stephen Yoccl of Leavitt & Pearce said that his store probably suffers in competition with malls due to a lack of parking and the fact that it couldn’t hold sales. An assistant manager at Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) in Brattle Square, Kevin Walker, said that business was done very differently...
...University of Minnesota. The U.S. currently has enough Tamiflu stockpiled to treat 2.3 million people. Roche spokesman Terence Hurley says that by the end of this year the Department of Health and Human Services should have in stock enough Tamiflu to treat 4.3 million people. But HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt would like to have enough to treat five times as many. The situation is about as bad, if not considerably worse, in almost all countries. "If Roche could deliver enough of the drug for even 7% of the world," Osterholm says, "it would be considered...