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August 1, 2007
in Current Affairs, Health & Medicine, Science, Social Science, Technology

August is…

August 1, 2007
in Current Affairs, Health & Medicine, Science, Social Science, Technology

The first of August brings several memorable events and many new releases from Yale University Press. Did you know….August is National Immunization Awareness Month? According to the CDC, National Immunization Awareness Month was recognized to “increase awareness about immunizations across the life span, from infants to the elderly. August is

November 21, 2005
in Current Affairs, Health & Medicine, Science

How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

November 21, 2005
in Current Affairs, Health & Medicine, Science

According to a panel of experts who appeared on this weekend’s edition of Meet the Press, we are critically under-prepared in the face of the impending, and some say inevitable, outbreak of an avian flu pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH says that “we don’t have the vaccine production