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...H1N1 flu vaccine is not yet ready. Lipsitch estimates that a small number of doses will be ready in October, but most of these vaccinations will be reserved for high-risk groups...
...research scientist at the HSPH who has been modeling the dynamics of H1N1 transmission in households, said he is looking forward to working in the new organization. One of his recent projects for the Center looked into the benefits of dispensing the common antiviral drug Tamiflu to individuals at high-risk of getting the H1N1 virus before flu cases begin coming in droves. “I hope that our results will soon be used to advise policy makers to make decisions,” Goldstein said. But the HSPH center aims to reach even farther, according to Lipsitch...
...until both happened to present their data at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Vienna in July. Williams, who was in the audience when Amouyel gave his talk, immediately checked her database on her laptop and found to her delight that her group had identified the same high-risk genes as Amouyel's. (Read about advances for Alzheimer's - outside...
...Alzheimer's patients' samples, certain versions of the genes that coded for clusterin and PICALM were more likely to be active, compared with the controls; in Amouyel's data set, clusterin and CR1 were the two highest ranking genes. While Amouyel's study had also noted PICALM as a high-risk gene of interest and Williams's research had likewise identified CR1, the two groups used different criteria to pinpoint their highest priority genes, leading to the slightly different rankings. (Both groups also found increased activity of the previously discovered gene, ApoE, in their Alzheimer's samples...
...pieces are coming together." Billings, like his competitors, many of whom owed him money, inhabited a Florida panhandle business world that resembled a tawdry cable TV drama series. "Bud Billings was a very hard-nosed, unyielding businessman because he had to be," Morgan says. "He was in a high-risk business, loaning money to the kind of people who can't get it anywhere else...