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Excellent Preclinical Data On Novel Type Of Intranasal H5N1 Influenza Vaccine
Studies performed in three animal models confirmed the safety and intensive immunogenicity of a new type of intranasal H5N1 influenza vaccine, according to the latest preclinical study data announced today by the Vienna based firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology. The study data was just published in PloS One, the Public Library of Science.
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Long-Suffering Rohingya In Bangladesh Face Unacceptable Abuse
Thousands of unregistered Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong makeshift camp, Bangladesh, are being forcibly displaced from their homes, in an act of intimidation and abuse by the local authorities. The international medical organization Doctors Without Border/Mç©decins Sans Frontiç¨res (MSF) has treated numerous people for injuries, of which the majority were women and children. Furthermore, MSF has witnessed countless destroyed homes and heard many reports of people being warned to remove their own shelters or face the consequences.
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White Matter Changes May Predict Dementia Risk
Elderly people with no memory or thinking problems are more likely to later develop thinking problems if they have a growing amount of "brain rust," or small areas of brain damage, according to a study published in the July 14, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Editorials And Opinions

A Selection of Opinions and Editorials Fixing Health Care Starts With The Doctors - Washington Post It"s the doctors stupid (Steven Pearlstein, 6/10). Overseas, Under The Knife - New York Times One consequence of the high cost of medical care in the United States has been the rise of medical tourism. Every year, thousands of Americans undergo surgery in other countries because the allure of good care at half the price is too good to pass up (Arnold Milstein, Mark D. Smith, Jerome P. Kassirer, 6/9). Health Care Reform Or Just Expensive Entitlement Expansion? - McClatchy/Kaiser Health News We desperately need health care reform in America to cover all of our people and to craft a sustainable health care system... But I fear we will not get the health care reform we so desperately need (Robert Laszewski, 6/9). Our View On Health Care Reform - USA Today Requiring everyone to obtain insurance is a useful idea that demands what elected officials have long been afraid to ask for - sacrifice and shared responsibility (6/10). Health Care Reform: First, You"ll Feel A Sharp Pinch - Wall Street Journal Many politicians pushing to restructure the health-care system might shrink from the comparison, but they are making the same kind of pie-in-the-sky promises that President Ronald Reagan made when he took office and vowed to balance the budget (Peter Brown, 6/9). Sugar Taxed - Reuters Still, given the alarming rates of obesity and diabetes in the United States, and given the dire need to finance health care reform, such a tax may do a lot of good (Dan Mitchell, 6/9). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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