Biodefence lab criticized

EPA's PM2.5 program criticized.

Clinical Psychology Adversely Criticized

From visits to a number of clinics and other places where mental retardation or deficiency is receiving attention, from interviews with physicians and psychologists who are not working in the field, and from current journals and newspapers, criticisms have been gathered of clinical psychology in its present status. The adverse criticisms may be reduced to the following:?(1) Mental tests are bei...

Vaccines and Therapies for Biodefence Agents

This special issue, dealing with biodefence vaccines and therapies, incorporates two review papers and six original research papers. The review papers introduce concepts and themes underpinning the research papers, including the use of animal models to predict human responses in the transition of candidate vaccines and therapies from research to development and the impact of advances in genomic...

Effort reporting: government drops much-criticized paperwork.

Biodefence and the production of knowledge: rethinking the problem.

Biodefence, broadly understood as efforts to prevent or mitigate the damage of a bioterrorist attack, raises a number of ethical issues, from the allocation of scarce biomedical research and public health funds, to the use of coercion in quarantine and other containment measures in the event of an outbreak. In response to the US bioterrorist attacks following September 11, significant US policy...