A paper by Robert Campbell, CEO/President, Alliance Solutions Group, USA With the emergence of Ebola impacting countries beyond West Africa, global health security became more relevant throughout the world in 2014. There have been...
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a protein made by the Ebolavirus removes a protective coat from the virus’s genetic material, exposing the viral genome so that...
A paper by Robert Campbell, CEO/President, Alliance Solutions Group, USA With the emergence of Ebola impacting countries beyond West Africa, global health security became more relevant throughout the world in 2014. There have been...
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – KHAR / HANGU / BARA: The Islamic State’s commander-designate for Pakistan, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, was killed with two others in a bomb explosion in the Toor Dara area of Tirah...
ARMS CONTROL WONK – Not for the first time, when Barack Obama declared April 2 that the greater Middle East has no real alternative to a nuclear accommodation with Iran, advocates of the “cascade...
THE DIPLOMAT – North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) pose a number of challenges, particularly how to find and secure those weapons if the regime collapses. This paper will look briefly at 1)...
A paper by: Dr. Abdur-Rafay Shareef, Chemist, USFDA, United States; Zhichao Lin, Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), Winchester Engineering and Analytical Center (WEAC), USA; Stephanie Healey, Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), Winchester Engineering and...
EURACTIV – Gerd Müller and Hermann Gröhe travelled to Ghana and Liberia on Tuesday (7 April) to strengthen the healthcare system in Africa. But industry officials were not in their delegation. Continue Reading …read...
We all remember that Time Magazine awarded the Ebola Fighters their Person of the Year, right? Well, George Mason President Angel Cabrera recognized Audrey Ferguson, an Ebola fighter who attended GMU, as his Mason...
THE DETROIT NEWS – A new bill in Congress would direct the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to research the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions affecting children and grandchildren of veterans exposed to...
The National Institutes of Health and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) are awarding 31 grants to U.S. and South African scientists to support research targeting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and HIV-related co-morbidities and cancers....
REUTERS – Humanitarian operations in conflict zones such as Afghanistan are blighted by deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs), an international affairs NGO says. The crisis is heightened by increasingly militarized and politicized international aid...
THE TELEGRAPH – Authorities issued an alert for several Mexican states on Wednesday after thieves snatched potentially deadly radioactive material used for industrial radiography. The iridium-192 source was inside a container when it was...
Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2015 – President Vladimir Putin on Monday lifted a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S-300 air defence missile systems after Tehran struck a landmark framework deal with the West...
Lisbon (AFP) April 15, 2015 – Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama was ‘responsible’ for making sure that Washington respects a final agreement over Iran’s nuclear programme even though Congress...
Washington (AFP) April 12, 2015 – Secretary of State John Kerry will this week defend an emerging deal intended to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, urging skeptical US lawmakers not to put up obstacles that...
Vienna (AFP) April 15, 2015 – Possible skeletons in Iran’s closet — the subject of talks in Tehran on Wednesday — could yet spook the historic Iran nuclear deal, experts say. The UN nuclear...
The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events organized a series of three regional workshops in 2014 to explore opportunities to strengthen the regional coordination required in response...
The National Academies Press has published Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research, a summary of a two-day public symposia on GOF research convened in December 2014 by the Institute of Medicine and the...
A team of biologists from San Diego State University has developed a platform for identifying drugs that could prove to be effective against a variety of viral diseases. In a pair of recent articles...
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