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Anthrax Alert For Heroin Users In London
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and NHS London have confirmed that a drug injecting heroin user has tested positive for anthrax and is being treated in a London hospital. This is the first case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England since similar cases were first seen in Scotland in December 2009. Nineteen cases have so far been confirmed in Scotland... ...more		 07 Feb 2010
PharmAthene Submits White Paper To BARDA For Advanced Development Funding For SparVax(TM) - Novel Recombinant Protective Antigen Anthrax Vaccine
PharmAthene, Inc... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Soligenix Announces Publication Of Positive Stability Results With RiVax(TM), Its Vaccine Against Ricin Toxin
Soligenix, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biotechnology company, announced the publication of an article in the February 2010 edition of Vaccine, which describes preclinical formulations of RiVax™, its ricin toxin vaccine, with heightened stability... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
WHO Addresses Handling Of H1N1 At Council Of Europe Meeting
During a Council of Europe meeting on Tuesday to address the WHO's handling of the H1N1 virus, the WHO said it had not "fallen under the sway of drugs firms and exaggerated the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus, but said it might have handled the crisis better," Reuters reports... ...more		 28 Jan 2010
Universal Detection Technology Responds To Failure Of U.S. Bioterrorism Prevention In Congressional Commission's Report Card
Universal Detection Technology (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, responded today to a bipartisan congressional committee's scathing report card failing the U.S... ...more		 27 Jan 2010
Special Lecuture To Outline Obama Administration's Strategy For Preventing Biological Threats
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) will host its 2010 Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting February 21-24, 2010 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD... ...more		 27 Jan 2010
Improving Computing, Communication For Emergency Personnel At Disaster Sites
Hurricane Katrina. The Southeast Asian tsunami. Now the killer earthquake in Haiti, which has claimed upwards of 50,000 lives. In each case, the response to a natural disaster has been further complicated by the difficulty delivering medical care in a chaotic environment where the communications infrastructure on the ground is seriously damaged or completely destroyed... ...more		 27 Jan 2010
Up To $43 Million Awarded To Duke To Develop Test For Dirty Bomb/Radiation Exposure
Duke University has received a $3.7 million contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a rapid and accurate genomic-based diagnostic test that can determine if a person has been exposed to radiation from a dirty bomb or nuclear attack. In the event that all option years are exercised by the government, Duke University could receive up to $43... ...more		 22 Jan 2010
Sniffing Out Terrorists
A new intelligent system has been developed to help identify terrorists carrying explosives. Sensitive electronic noses capture the smell of the explosives; the system processes the acquired data, correlates it with individuals' movements ... and ultimately tracks down the suspects. Literally hundreds of people are hurrying through the long airport corridor between Terminals A and B... ...more		 15 Jan 2010
Behavioral Identification Can Help Stop Terrorists Like Abdul Mutallab, Researcher Says
The effective use of multiple layers of intelligence gathering, including existing behavioral identification programs, could have excluded the murderous Farouk Abdul Mutallab from travel before he got anywhere near Northwest Flight 253. So says University at Buffalo behavioral scientist and security researcher Mark G... ...more		 08 Jan 2010
Airport Full-Body Scanners And Radiation: ACR Statement
Amid concerns regarding terrorists targeting airliners using weapons less detectable by traditional means, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ramping up deployment of whole body scanners at security checkpoints in U.S. airports. These systems produce anatomically accurate images of the body and can detect objects and substances concealed by clothing... ...more		 08 Jan 2010
Senate Lets DOJ Nominee Johnsen Lapse
President Obama will need to re-nominate Dawn Johnsen as his choice for the head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel after the Senate failed to take action on her nomination before adjourning on Christmas Eve, CQ Today reports... ...more		 05 Jan 2010
BARDA Awards Up To $143 Million For Advanced Development Of A New Drug To Treat Anthrax
The HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) awarded a contract to Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. of Pine Brook, N.J., for the advanced development of a medication to treat inhalational anthrax, one of the top bioterrorism threats facing the nation. The first year of the contract, called the base year, is valued at $16.8 million... ...more		 05 Jan 2010
Physicist Sees With "T-Rays"
"T-rays" may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretic groundwork to make the concept a reality. In addition to being more revealing than X-rays in some situations, T-rays do not have the cumulative possible harmful effects... ...more		 01 Jan 2010
Anthrax Found In Drums Linked To Infected Woman, US
US health officials have confirmed samples from a pair of African drums used in a drumming circle attended by a New Hampshire woman who is severely ill in hospital with gastrointestinal anthrax have tested positive for the deadly bacterium... ...more		 29 Dec 2009
Soligenix Announces Publication Of Positive Pre Clinical Results With RiVax(TM), Its Vaccine Against Ricin Toxin
Soligenix, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), formerly known as DOR BioPharma, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company, announced the publication of an article in the January 2010 edition of Infection and Immunity, detailing the characteristics of several immunodominant regions of ricin A chain, the antigenic component of RiVax((TM))... ...more		 29 Dec 2009
After 9/11 About 25 Percent Of Arab Adults In Detroit Reported Abuse
One quarter of Detroit-area Arab Americans reported personal or familial abuse because of race, ethnicity or religion since 9/11, leading to higher odds of adverse health effects, according to a new University of Michigan study. The study was published online in the American Journal of Public Health. Muslim Arabs also reported higher rates of abuse than Christians, said lead author Aasim I... ...more		 28 Dec 2009
New Direction For NATO Must Make Alliance Relevant In Current Security Environment
NATO is rethinking its future direction for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a process that could redirect the Cold War alliance toward contemporary security issues like cyberthreats and piracy, and strengthen its commitment to fragile states like Afghanistan, according to a new RAND Corporation study... ...more		 24 Dec 2009
Scientists Now Know How Smallpox Kills
A team of researchers working in a high containment laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, have solved a fundamental mystery about smallpox that has puzzled scientists long after the natural disease was eradicated by vaccination.: they know how it kills us... ...more		 23 Dec 2009
In A Pandemic Best Go Digital
The use of a digital checklist for patients being administered emergency drugs during a pandemic or following a biological terrorist attack reduces the fatigue factor, according to a report in the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, and could save lives... ...more		 23 Dec 2009
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