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Friday, July 24, 2009

Obama's healthcare focus

Text: Obama's Remarks on Health Care, NYT 7-22-09
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/us/politics/22obama.text.html

CNA's Single Payer/Medicare for All
http://www.calnurses.org/research/pdfs/ihsp_sp_economic_study_2009.pdf

Obama's Health Plan, Znet, 7-09
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/21873

Obama's Science pledge, APHA, 5-09
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Obama+says+science+will+lead+health,+environmental+decisions.-a0199590023

Bipartisan WMD Panel Criticizes Obama Plan To Fund Flu Vaccine, Wash Post 6-8-09

Project Bioshield: Purposes and Authorities, Congressional reports, 7-6-09, 5-4-09
Obama diverting Bioshield!

Senate Democrats Press for Flu Preparedness, Democratic Policy Committee, 5-4-09
Democratic history of trying to get money for flu prep, Bush denying, Obama yes-ing!

2009 H1N1 "Swine Flu" Outbreak: An Overview, Congressional reports, 4-30-09

Obama and H1N1, APHA, 6-09
http://www.apha.org/publications/tnh/current/JuneJuly09/Nation/swinefluNAT.htm

Obama Weekly Address 2009 H1N1, 5-2-09
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/WEEKLY-ADDRESS-President-Obama-Outlines-Government-Actions-to-Address-the-2009-H1N1-Flu/

Fast-tracked Swine Flu Vaccine under Fire, Institute of Science in Society
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fastTrackSwineFluVaccineUnderFire.php

Swine flu legal immunity, 7-17-09
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjdCHrP82YTFser5vD6CzTK1az6wD99GH8580


U.S. panel prepares to OK swine flu vaccine trials, Reuters 7-23-09
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56M3LB20090723

Obama vaccination campaign for swine flu, WSJ, 7-10-09
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124714942306818305.html


Obama worst-case scenario for swine flu, VOANews, 5-1-09
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-05/2009-05-01-voa48.cfm?CFID=264114892&CFTOKEN=13328181&jsessionid=8830d2c6ee221c3fad51f275a4e80763a312

Obama H1N1 medium preparedness, DOD, 5-1-09
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54172

CLG pandemic LINK
http://www.legitgov.org/pandemic_action.html

Clinicians' Biosecurity Network LINK
http://www.upmc-cbn.org/

UPMC's 2009 Biosecurity Memos to Obama LINK
http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2009/biomemo/2009-03-27-strategic_priorities_biosecurity.html


CDC/White House press release H1N1, 4-36-09
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Briefing-On-Swine-Influenza-4/26/09/

Agencies to set up mass swine flu vaccinations, SFgate 7-20-09
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/21/BA6H18PA5J.DTL

Readying Americans for Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations, Global Research 6-10-09
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13925

Huge new Biodefense Lab is Dedicated at Fort Detrick, Wash Post 10-23-08
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203082.html

Army Investigating Disappearance of Lethal Pathogen at Fort Detrick, NTI 4-23-09
http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20090423_9776.php

Swine Flu Vaccine Fast-tracked to September, webmd.
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090717/swine-flu-vaccine-fast-track

Pandemic Flu Preparedness: LESSONS FROM THE FRONTLINES, Trust for America's Health/UPMC, 6-09
http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2009/pdf/2009-06-04-tfah2009-pan-flu-06.pdf

2008 H1N1 Influenza Issue Brief: A Closer Look at WHO Pandemic Declaration, UPMC, 7-09
http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/focus/2009_H1N1_updates/isssue_briefs/2009-06-11-A_Closer_Look_WHO_Pan_Declaration.html

BWC, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 7/09
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/malcolm-dando/biodevelopment-and-the-biological-weapons-convention

Changing nuclear policy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2009
http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/f64x2k3716wq9613/fulltext.pdf

New Scientist section "epidemic"
http://www.newscientist.com/topic/epidemic

New Rules for Biosecurity, Science, 5-29-09
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;324/5931/1117?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&andorexacttitle=or&andorexacttitleabs=or&fulltext=biodefense&andorexactfulltext=or&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&fdate=7/1/1880&tdate=7/31/2009&resourcetype=HWCIT,HWELTR


PSD-1, Organizing for Homeland Sec and Counterterrorism, 2-23-09
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/psd/psd-1.pdf

PDD-1, Org of the Nat Sec Council System, 2-13-09
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-1.pdf

Obama's Biosecurity views, Arms Control Assocation, election 2008
http://www.armscontrol.org/2008election

Strengthen American Biosecurity, Obama's Change.gov
http://change.gov/agenda/homeland_security_agenda/

Obama Appoints O'Toole and her smallpox modeling, 7-24-08
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-orent17-2009jul17,0,6572159.story

Obama AIDS campaign, Infectious Disease News, 4-8-09
http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/article/38815.aspx

BTWC-current status and 2006 review, Arms Control Today, 2/09
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_01-02/BWC
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_01-02/NewsAnalysisBWC


BIOETHICS
In Debate Over Health Policy, Some Words Are Seldom Spoken, 8-14-09
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/health/policy/15beliefs.html?_r=1&th&emc=th