April 2009 Archives
April 30, 2009 5:52 PM
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Flu Preparations: When It's Good to Wing It
Detailed preparedness plans drawn up in the past five years have been a boon for officials fighting the outbreak of swine flu. But not everyone is reading from the same...
April 30, 2009 5:20 PM
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Searching for Margaret Hamburg
Over at The New Republic's health care blog, Jonathan Cohn is wondering why an apparently qualified expert on infectious disease—a member of the Institute of Medicine, no less—has yet to...
April 30, 2009 12:00 PM
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How Powerful Are the Pentagon's Hackers?
The National Research Council stepped into the shadowy world of cyberwarfare this week, issuing a call for open discussion of the Pentagon's efforts to build computer viruses or other novel...
April 30, 2009 11:33 AM
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Stop Writing Grants and Pick Up Your Pipettes
Slate covers the Challenge Grant frenzy that's sweeping the biomedical nation: The grant-writing mania is palpable across academic and medical institutions. At the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, for...
April 30, 2009 11:30 AM
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Experts Want Scientists to Monitor Their Colleagues
University researchers who work with dangerous pathogens should keep an eye on each other and report any signs of suspicious behavior to lab managers, says a panel of life scientists...
April 30, 2009 11:19 AM
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Ferreting Out the Swine Flu Mystery
Now a popular pet, ferrets have also become the animal model of choice for many influenza studies, as they can easily be infected with the virus and have similar respiratory...
April 29, 2009 7:33 PM
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On the Precipice of Pandemic
The World Health Organization has raised the threat of the current outbreak of swine flu from phase 4 to 5, officials announced this evening in Geneva. Phase 6 is a...
Exclusive Interview: CDC Head Virus Sleuth
Virologist Ruben Donis, chief of the molecular virology and vaccines branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with ScienceInsider at length last night about the swine...
April 29, 2009 4:32 PM
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World's Largest Scientific Society Trims Pubs
The American Chemical Society has cut 56 employees or 3% of its work force, eliminated select retirement benefits, and reduced general expenses across the organization to cope with declining ad...
Worries and Questions Mount as Disease Goes Global
Racing to keep up with swine flu’s spread, health agencies warned this morning that the number infected is changing hourly, and the World Health Organization is eyeing an upgrade to...
As Swine Flu Spreads, Its Chances to Mutate Increase
TOKYO—Swine flu has reached Asia, with South Korea reporting its first suspected case yesterday. Like the vast majority of other cases outside Mexico so far, it is mild, but virologist...
April 29, 2009 11:50 AM
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Swine Flu Maps: The Swarm of Data
A number of maps have cropped up plotting reported cases of swine flu, but they vary in quality. Buyer beware: Much of the data comes from press reports and has...
April 29, 2009 11:08 AM
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Your Top Flu Primer Award Goes To ...
... Washington Post graphic artists Brenna Maloney and Laura Stanton, who today explicate and elucidate the way flu viruses work, and what scientists are learning specifically about this one....
Could Swine Flu Have Come From America?
HIV/AIDS could shed some light on swine flu’s origins. And what it shows upends common wisdom. A 2004 study asked where Mexicans who migrated to California for seasonal farm work...
April 29, 2009 10:33 AM
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First Confirmed U.S. Death From Swine Flu Is Visiting Mexican Boy
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services says a 23-month-old child from Texas died Monday night from swine flu. The child had recently traveled with family members to Mexico....
The Skinny on the Pig Farm Connection
Several news reports about the swine flu outbreak have pointed a finger at a massive pig farm in Veracruz, Mexico, as the potential source of the first transmission to humans....
April 28, 2009 5:40 PM
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Can Travel Advisories Halt a Virus?
That’s one question on everyone’s lips these days, with governments issuing conflicting warnings about avoiding countries hit by swine flu. But as jittery travelers reconsider planned Mexican vacations, officials at...
April 28, 2009 5:39 PM
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California's Stem Cell Scientists Fear Federal Red Tape
The federal government has opened the door for human embryonic stem cell research, and it's now figuring out which ethical strings to attach. But California researchers are worried that the...
April 28, 2009 4:54 PM
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Several Severe Swine Flu Cases Surface in the United States
Five people with swine flu in the United States have been hospitalized, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today. Until now, only one patient in the...
April 28, 2009 12:21 PM
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Is Current Flu Vaccine Truly Impotent Against Swine Flu?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly doubts that this year’s flu vaccine will offer people any protection from the swine flu. “We don’t think that any of...
April 28, 2009 12:16 PM
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Biomedical Research Stalwart Arlen Specter Switches Parties …
… to the Democratic Party in a move aimed at retaining his U.S. Senate seat. Specter, a huge proponent of biomedical research and the force behind the $10.4 billion for...
April 28, 2009 12:15 PM
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Medical Experts: On Conflicts of Interest, Tell All
The best way to damp down concerns about doctors’ and researchers’ financial conflicts of interest is to require full disclosure, according to an expert report issued today. A panel of...
April 28, 2009 11:53 AM
Is America Still Split Into "Two Cultures"?
Journalist Chris Mooney and Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett discuss the modern-day importance of the landmark 1959 book by C. P. Snow, which alleged that intellectual life in the United...
April 27, 2009 10:29 PM
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WHO Ratchets Up Pandemic Alert Level a Notch
In another signal that the world may be closer to an influenza pandemic, the World Health Organization tonight announced that it has upped the pandemic alert level from 3 to...
Will Stopping Travel Stop the Flu?
As part of its effort to slow the spread of swine flu, the U.S. government plans to issue an advisory later today for its citizens to avoid all nonessential travel...
April 27, 2009 2:23 PM
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AP: New Tally of Deaths in Iraq Match Lower Estimates
Offering new data on the controversial question of how many violent deaths have happened in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Associated Press has obtained an Iraqi government tally...
April 27, 2009 2:23 PM
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Obama at the Academy, V : Hungry Audience, Meaty Speech
The warm reception at the National Academy of Sciences was also a coming-out party for President Barack Obama, cementing his reputation as a virtual rock star among U.S. scientists. His...
April 27, 2009 11:44 AM
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WHO May Raise Pandemic Threat Level
The World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to raise the pandemic threat level of the current swine flu outbreak within an hour. The Geneva-based organization planned to convene its Emergency...
April 27, 2009 11:07 AM
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Obama at the Academy IV: Speech Text
From the White House: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery National...
April 27, 2009 10:21 AM
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Obama at the Academy, III: Aesthetics
From the White House pool report of traveling reporters who shadow the president:A little scenery: there were about 900 people in the room, the vastmajority of them male and white....
April 27, 2009 9:48 AM
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Obama at the Academy, II
From the White House press release; our analysis coming soon. FACT SHEET: A HISTORIC COMMITMENT TO RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Today, President Obama will speak before the Annual Meeting of the...
April 27, 2009 9:08 AM
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Obama at the Academy, I
"The President of the United States is in the building," said Ralph Cicerone this morning at the academy as thousands of scientists filled the hallways, member center, great hall, auditorium,...
April 27, 2009 1:46 AM
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Hat in Hand, Specter Proposes New Agency to Race for the Cure
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) says giving the U.S. National Institutes of Health billions more dollars isn't enough to bolster biomedical research. On Saturday at a clinical research meeting in Chicago,...
April 26, 2009 7:54 PM
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Swine Flu Spreads, But Severity and Genetics Remain Murky
Although the spread of swine flu appears to be accelerating—and the virus is beginning to dominate global headlines—the World Health Organization (WHO) stopped short of ratcheting up the pandemic alert...
April 25, 2009 7:38 PM
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Retrospective: What Happened With Swine Flu in 1976
Infectious disease specialist Edwin D. Kilbourne, now 88 and retired, was at the center of the last swine flu scare in the U.S. In 1976, a swine flu strain swept...
April 25, 2009 3:46 PM
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CDC Looking Nationwide for More Swine Flu
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that it has not found any new cases of swine flu in the country other than the eight identified...
April 25, 2009 2:10 PM
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Behind the Scenes: Navy Researchers Helped Spot Swine Flu in the United States
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA—Late on the afternoon of 16 April, 5 days before the public first learned about the current outbreak of swine flu, Michele Ginsberg received word from the U.S....
New Details Emerge on Swine Flu
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published new details about swine flu cases in the United States. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) dispatch supports earlier...
April 24, 2009 6:37 PM
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Dizzying Deluge of Swine Flu Numbers
The outbreak of swine flu in the United States and Mexico is—as is typical during the early stages of the spread of a new virus—leading to an outpouring of different...
April 24, 2009 5:33 PM
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Swine Flu Deja Vu?
For a handful of scientists, the swine flu hitting the southern U.S. and Mexico bears an eerie resemblance to another outbreak more than 30 years ago. Then, a strain of...
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