Fast Response Best Strategy Vs Anthrax -Scientists
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Rapid response with antibiotics would be  a more effective way of handling an anthrax terror attack than  a pre-emptive mass vaccination program, scientists said on  Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON A new federal report says Virginia is among the top six states best prepared to handle bioterrorism. But it also says most states still don&#39;t have statewide response plans.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - They can do it for love of God and country - or for the $60. Either way, soldiers vaccinated against anthrax have the opportunity to help future anthrax victims by donating their blood.
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The study found about 70 percent of anthrax cases could be prevented if antibiotics were distributed within 6 days after exposure and patients were to take them for 60 days.
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Shreds it Take it from our boys in Iraq. Automatic weapons are the most effective way to convince a customer service representative about the severity of your product issues.â¦
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Jakarta (VNA) - The Indonesian government has set up a post to monitor the spread of anthrax at Babakan Madang village, Bogor, in West Java, where there has been an outbreak of anthrax, said Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto.
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Do germs communicate? Many scientists think so and are betting the chatter may hold the key to developing the next generation of drugs to fight killer superbugs.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. Aug. 20, 2004 - They can do it for love of God and country or for the $60. Either way, soldiers vaccinated against anthrax have the opportunity to help future anthrax victims by donating their blood.
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NEW YORK  - Endurance runners' strenuous training can erode their immunity and make them more vulnerable to catching colds, but a daily dose of "good" bacteria could bring their immune systems back up to speed, Australian researchers have shown.
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The US government has awarded VaxGen a contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilian defense. The contract is valued at $877.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----    Doctor Who Was Focus of Anthrax Probe Loses Job      A doctor who has recently become the focus of federal agents investigating the unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States has lost his job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.      Dr...
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Using a novel research technique, Hong Kong scientists find new ways to attack a deadly disease
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Based off of a previous article from Mike Willbanks, Stuart Herbert has posted some of his own thoughts on tuning and tweaking your applications for the best performance you can get out of them.   There's some good advice in there, and I thought it'd be a good idea to quickly add a bit more detail about the separate approaches that Mike raises.   He goes over the APC caching, memcache, the "gzip trick", the "Not Modified" header and optimized SQL statements.   He also mentions one thing that Mike didn't mention - a split between static files (no PHP needed) and their dynamic cousins. Having a more pure Apache (no PHP installed) can help give a minute jump in speed that, depending on the size of the site, could really add up from a user's perspective.
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The U.S. government needs to throw away more than $12 million worth of expired anthrax vaccine and quickly use up the rest of a rapidly aging supply worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a Government Accountability Office expert said on Tuesday.
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Can food-poisoning bacteria E. coli make chips better than humans? Start-up says yes, but primordial soup will take time to steep.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests. Federal ...
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Synthetically produced antibodies that target a component of the anthrax toxin may reduce illness and death due anthrax exposure, even after shock has set in, rat studies indicate.