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...urgency to shift to e-health was the joint press conference held in Washington last week by Senators Hillary Clinton and Bill Frist, two potential presidential candidates who otherwise rarely get near enough to pass a communicable disease. They've got together, however, to introduce legislation that would provide seed money for local health networks and eliminate the biggest hurdle to beaming medical records to where they are needed: the lack of interoperability among the myriad systems now in use. Medical record keeping in the U.S. is in the "Dark Ages," Clinton complained. "We need to have the information easily...
...World Health Organization (WHO) and other scientists are worried about Vietnam's vaccine, which they say could itself make people sick, or even set off a pandemic. The problem is that the virus reference seed?the weakened bit of live H5N1 used to build up immunity in the human body?was mixed with cancer cells to help it replicate and then grown in a monkey kidney. That method is highly unorthodox. "People could get cancer from the vaccine," says Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global influenza program. Even more ominous, the developers say they've followed international procedures...
...officials thought they had convinced Vietnam's government to call off human testing on its vaccine and develop a new one based on an approved virus seed provided by the WHO. But two top Vietnamese scientists tell TIME they will forge ahead with their own strain. "Nothing has changed," says Dr. Nguyen Thu Van, the head of the vaccine team. "We will test our vaccine on humans as planned before." There's little anyone can do: the WHO has no enforcement powers. "The danger is very unlikely," admits Michael Perdue, a WHO virus expert who has consulted with Vietnam...
...over Brown did not count in the division standings—the Ivy Invitational was a non-league match—the loss to Brown marked the league opener for the Crimson. Harvard rebounded to defeat the Bears in Providence later in the season, but Brown took the second-seed at Northerns over the Crimson due to a tie-breaker...
...planted the seed, after all, but his team had done the work...