Germ Sleuths Stalk Origin of Killer Flu

from the Wall Street Journal…
by DAVID LUHNOW, JOSE DE CORDOBA and GAUTAM NAIK
MEXICO CITY — “I’ve got some bad news.”
The voice on the conference call last week was Frank Plummer, a Canadian scientist who had just spent 24 hours analyzing virus samples from 51 seriously ill people in Mexico.
The news: Seventeen people carried a completely [...]

Institute of Medicine Calls for Doctors to Stop Taking Gifts From Drug Makers

By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: April 28, 2009
WASHINGTON — In a scolding report, the nation’s most influential medical advisory group said doctors should stop taking much of the money, gifts and free drug samples they routinely accept from drug and device companies.

Senators Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, are co-sponsors of [...]