Postal Anthrax Retesting Said Unnecessary
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Repeat testing for anthrax is unnecessary in facilities decontaminated following the 2001 anthrax attacks, a new analysis said Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Screening for cancer quite often produces a false-positive result, and this can lead to costly -- and ultimately unnecessary -- follow-up testing, according to a new report.
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WASHINGTON A federal judge ordered the Defense Department to stop requiring members of the armed forces to be vaccinated against anthrax without their consent.
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Â· Third of all food products tested had chemical tracesÂ· Very small percentage of samples posed health risk
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The US Defense Department&#39;s mandatory anthrax vaccination program for its troops is illegal and must stop immediately, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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In an Aug. 26. story about the recall of a medical device used to measure carbon dioxide in patient&#39;s blood, the Associated Press included incorrect information provided by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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Tests that determine whether toxic chemicals accumulate in food may be missing some hazardous materials and need to be updated, a Canadian researcher said Thursday.
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Oct 28, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The Department of Defense (DoD) has suspended its anthrax vaccination program in response to a federal court ruling that military personnel should not have to accept the shots against their will unless the president orders
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West African percussion of death The 50-year-old man who died in 2006 from anthrax probably caught the disease while "playing or handling West African drums", the BBC reports.â¦
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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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A government program designed to build a national stockpile of biodefense drugs after the 2001 anthrax attacks has a bad reputation among drug companies. Pharmas and the feds trade blame.
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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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The US military has been ordered to suspend compulsory anthrax vaccination for troops by a federal judge. More than a million US soldiers have been forced to have the jab since 1998, with hundreds punished
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Six unnamed Defense Department employees are renewing their legal battle to stop Pentagon officials from administering mandatory anthrax vaccinations, claiming that the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the shot was flawed and puts people at risk.
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Scientists working for the government have developed standards to measure the accuracy of anthrax detection tests, hoping to steer first responders away from tests that have delivered too many false readings.
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U.S. health officials said on   Tuesday they were re-evaluating rules that allow the testing of   unapproved emergency treatments without patient consent, a   practice that came under fire in recent studies of potential   blood substitutes.
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A research team has been awarded a &#36;3.5 million federal grant to use a molecular detective technique to study and potentially improve the military's anthrax vaccine.