Helen Branswell
Senior writer, infectious diseases & global health, @statnews. I block rude. #flu #Zika, #Ebola, #polio, #AMR. Neiman '11. 🇨🇦
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Helen Branswell
The North Kivu #Ebola outbreak hasn't exploded, numbers-wise, which is great. But extinguishing this one isn't likely to be easy, or quick. Troubling signs on the ground.
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Gas fires, explosions rock Lawrence, Andover areas - The Boston Globe
State Police advised all residents in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover who get their gas service from Columbia Gas to evacuate their homes immediately.
Eurosurveillance | National outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa associated with an aftercare solution following piercings, July to September 2016, England
We report a national Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak from a common source following piercings between July and September 2016 in England. The multi-agency outbreak investigation included active case finding, microbiological testing of environmental...
Helen Branswell
Clue, the icky version: It was aftercare solution, in the bathroom, with a cotton swab. British epidemiologists get to the bottom of an outbreak of Pseudomonas auruginosa infections after body piercings.
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The next Apple Watch wants to monitor your heart. Should you let it?
The Apple Watch could be a boon for peple with heart rhythm problems and their doctors. Or it could be a massive headache for the health care system.
H. Gilbert Welch resigns from Dartmouth over 'idea plagiarism' dispute
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch has resigned from his faculty position at Dartmouth College after an investigation concluded that he had committed research misconduct.
Ethics panel blocks proposed Zika vaccine research
The decision by a federally appointed panel threatens to further slow the search for an effective vaccine for Zika virus.
Helen Branswell
@Onisillos @NIH And more: My story on the ethics report that earlier shelved the effort to do Zika challenge studies.
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As massive Zika vaccine trial struggles, researchers revive plan to intentionally infect humans
Disappearance of Zika in Americas makes it tough for $110 million trial to evaluate worth of vaccine candidate
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Helen Branswell
Plans for human challenge studies for #Zika vaccines, previously nixxed by an @NIH ethics review panel, are being revived. With transmission at such low levels, challenge studies may be the only way to advance this work.
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Global Blood's FDA filing plan for a sickle cell drug is riskier than you think
The company's stock is up nearly 20 percent since the readout of its trial results. But there are important risks that investors might be glossing over.
Innovation and lower drug prices are what's needed to end tuberculosis
The U.N. high-level meeting on tuberculosis needs to remind countries they can use international law to make TB drugs less expensive and accessible to all.
Never mind the rhetoric. Most Americans think Trump is choking on drug prices
Just 23 percent approve of what President Trump is doing to lower costs, even though his administration is trying to develop and implement a blueprint.
Helen Branswell
Never mind the rhetoric. Most Americans think Trump is choking on drug prices, from @pharmalot.
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The Empty Storefronts of New York: A Panoramic View
New York City’s streetscape has been transformed — visually and economically — by the staggering numbers of vacant storefronts now dotting its most popular retail corridors.
Study: Flu vaccine protection starts to wane within weeks
The risk of getting the flu climbs about 16% every 28 days after vaccination.
Monkeypox case in England
Cases of monkeypox confirmed in England.
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Helen Branswell
This is weird: The UK reports a 2nd case of monkeypox — first was reported Sept. 8. At present, @PHE_uk sees no link between the two cases.
Like 2 lightening strikes on same target days apart. Can happen, but odd.
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Whoa: @PHE_uk reports a case of monkeypox in a traveler from Nigeria. Lots of evidence this week that distant diseases don’t stay put.
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This school janitor has quietly been giving homeless students clothes, soap and more from her ‘giving closet’
"Gloves, shoes, belts, pants, sweatshirts, hairbrushes, whatever they need, I've got it," said school custodian Carolyn Collins, who gives away items to kids in need.
How a 'hidden safety net' was rolled out in response to quarantined JFK plane
Agencies and response teams are often pulled together quickly in response to planes full of passengers reporting symptoms of unknown illnesses.
Rise in antibiotic resistance must be tackled, says top medic
Sally Davies fears medical advances like transplants are at risk from resistant bacteria
SickKids appoints Interim President and CEO
The Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David Naylor, MD, DPhil, to the position of Interim President and CEO at SickKids. Dr. Naylor will assume the interim role on Oct. 1, following the departure of Dr. Michael Apkon,...
Theranos should be a wake-up call. It probably won’t be
The biotech industry should prioritize science over speculation, but the system makes it likely that plenty more companies like Theranos will thrive.
Nieman Foundation announces the Harry M. Davis Nieman Fellowship in Science Journalism
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is pleased to announce the creation of the Harry M. Davis Nieman Fellowship in Science Journalism. The …
Plane quarantined at Kennedy Airport amid reports of 100 ill passengers
The plane, reportedly an Airbus 380, was traveling from Dubai to New York when about 100 passengers began to complain of an as yet unidentified illness.