Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures
The nation's top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program ...
CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal ...
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McMaster University researchers discover new blood clotting disorder
Researchers at McMaster University have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of hematology, providing an explanation for spontaneous and unusual blood-clotting that continues to occur despite ...
Dr. Bronner’s is dropping its B Corp certification
Dr. Bronner’s mainly takes issue with B Lab’s increasing certifications of multinational corporations such as Unilever ...
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Contact the Public Health Agency of Canada
Callers who have received a suspicious telephone call can report it by contacting the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. The Public Health Agency of Canada does not provide individual medical advice. Consult ...
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Trump’s CIA Now Backs Controversial Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
“The ‘lab leak’ furthers political objectives of the Trump administration, including shutting down infectious disease and vaccine research, eliminating public health, eroding trust in ...
Truthout23d
Trump Aims to Overhaul the FDA. What Does That Mean for Public Health?
During his first week in office, Trump issued 70 executive orders, including freezing federal hiring, pausing all communications from health agencies and withdrawing from the World Health Organization ...
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CIA says lab leak most likely source of Covid outbreak
The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.
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CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak
Ratcliffe authorized its public release, the official added. Congressional Republicans have embraced the unproven lab leak theory, pointing to how the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in ...
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CIA backs COVID lab leak theory - but admits ‘low confidence’ in its own findings on pandemic’s start
A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province. The CIA now says it believes COVID ...
Guyana Chronicle25d
Public Health Laboratory accredited as National Influenza Centre by PAHO/WHO
GUYANA’S National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL) has officially secured accreditation from the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) as a National Influenza ...
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Public Health Agency not renewing contracts of over 800 employees, including 245 at Winnipeg lab: union
which is currently the only Level 4 biosafety lab in the country — meaning it can handle the most dangerous pathogens. According to the Treasury Board, the Public Health Agency had 4,251 ...