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Researchers have started planning for the first clinical trial to test a candidate vaccine to protect against the coronavirus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, aka MERS.

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Is help on the way to prevent Ebola, Marburg viruses?

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UAlberta researchers are moving step-by-step, closer to solving the mystery of prions. Prions are proteins that can fold in multiple distinct ways and transmit themselves to other proteins. Prion replication can lead to diseases that resemble viral infections.

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Despite the many lives saved by the polio vaccine, researchers have no determined that the polio virus may lie dormant/latent for several years after it has been transmitted.

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This scientist is a hero and if you follow his advice, it may save your life. His dogged effort to bans trans-fats pitted him against the FDA, which seems more aligned with money interests than the health of Americans.

Read the article about Fred Kummerow, PhD and his 60 years of cardiology research in MSN.

According to health policy expert Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the reason is only partially due to volume. The primary reason is increases in costs and complexity of patient medical conditions.

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It shouldn’t surprise any physician: the dreaded patient satisfaction survey could lead just as easily to bad medicine as to improved practices. In fact, some bioethicists believe that hospitals or health plans that overly reply on patient satisfaction surveys set themselves up to companies marketing this product, which is “ripe for commercialization”.

Read the article in ModernHealthcare.

HHS – OIG is starting to look at doctors for violations of anti-kickback statute.

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