January 20, 2004 Vol. LVI, No. 2 Pittman Lecture Explores Human Molecular Genetics, Jan. 28 FDA's McClellan To Inaugurate NCI Seminar Series, Feb. 2 ORWH Offers Overview of Women and Alcohol NIH Management Intern Program Marks 47th Year |
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Ensuring 'Flexibility and Foresight' By Carla Garnett
Vaccine Trials, Triumphs Reviewed at Seminar By Rich McManus
The original title of the STEP committee's Dec. 2 presentation on vaccines was subtitled, "Friend or Foe?" but when it came time for the actual event, the more optimistic, if indefinite, title "Changing Perspectives" was adopted. That's because one needn't have sat through more than half the morning-long presentations to have gleaned that vaccines, viewed historically as a whole, are not only stratospherically more beneficial than they are harmful, but also new ones, including those for such deadly viruses as HIV and Ebola, are on the launchpad and being readied for presentation to a world desperately in need of them. |