I give up! Uncle!
Those words would cause me to cringe years ago and I avoided saying them at all costs. I saw them as some sort of blight on my pride. Today I'm saying them repeatedly and happily so. Suffice to say, it's been a bit of a challenging day. I'm out of town […]

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National Library of Medicine / Hot Medical News
This silent film clip shows several victims of a disease called kuru. They are - or rather were - members of the South Fore, a tribe of approximately 8,000 people who inhabit the Okapa subdistrict of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. In the 1950s and […]

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There are 163 days left in the Bush administration and we can hope that there are that number — or less — left in the Gerberding era at CDC. Julie Gerberding is the CDC Director and her abrasive, brutal and incompetent management style have taken the agency that was the jewel in the crown of […]

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