Response from CDC Director Mason

Notes from the Director

My years at MSRI have been immensely exciting and rewarding. The job is incredibly varied, the staff excellent, the community highly supportive. The Institute is prospering, and there are many new opportunities for action. Having done this job since 1997, I feel I see possibilities I would not have understood when I began. I cannot imagine a mathematical-administrative job more exciting than th...

HHS/CDC Legal Response to SARS Outbreak

Before the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) legal authority to apprehend, detain, or conditionally release persons was limited to seven listed diseases, not including SARS, and could only be changed using a two-step process: 1) executive order of the President of the United States on recommendation by the Secretary, U.S. D...

A Note From NIDA’s Director

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (AS&CP) is about to enter a new stage in its development. After this issue, the journal moves to a new publisher, Biomed Central, and assumes a new format as an openaccess, Internet-only publication. Taking over as Editors are Richard Saitz, M.D., M.P.H., and Jeffrey Samet, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit at Boston ...

Message from the Director - General

Block Mason

Hardware virtualization gives administrators the flexibility to rapidly create, destroy and relocate virtual machines across physical hosts. Unfortunately, the storage systems upon which these systems depend are not nearly as agile. To facilitate the rapid, safe development of block devices that can meet the needs of virtual machines, we present the Block Mason virtual block device framework. A...