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Along with a new report (Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review), the HHS has also launched a new website called:
The site bills itself as:
MedicalCountermeasures.gov provides a central source of information regarding research, development, and acquisition of medical countermeasures for public health emergencies, both naturally occurring and intentional.
I’ve included a screen shot of the site’s front page.
The centerpiece of this new website is a freshly issued report that discusses a strategy to produce “medical countermeasures” (vaccines, antivirals, diagnostics, etc) rapidly against an emerging disease threat.
You can read the report, press release, factsheet, and HHS blog entry at the following links.
Countermeasures Enterprise Review Report (PDF)
Science and Technology Report
Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor at Reuters has more detail on all of this in the following story:
U.S. proposes wide changes in role fighting disease
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:56am EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government proposed big changes on Thursday to the way it works with companies to fight new disease threats such as flu, including reform at the Food and Drug Administration and setting up centers to make vaccines quickly.
Note: Since I’m embroiled in moving to new digs this week, I haven’t had time to give these documents more than a cursory look, but wanted to pass them along nonetheless.
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