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BIO 2007: Wisconsin makes its presence felt

...unity is scrambling to control, it discovered that flu viruses were starting to develop resistance to dru...compound that might offer broad protection against flu viruses. His work will be further recognized this fall with the opening of the Institute for Influe...

Medical College team creates website for tracking flu

...lth officials since the onset of the avian or bird flu virus, and they have been scrambling to find ways ...luenza diagnostics. Since the 1997 Hong Kong bird flu outbreak, Henrickson said the focus of the scientific community has intensified on all aspects of in...

New Mexico firm to make flu vaccine at Wisconsin BioManufacturing facility

...ical trials underway before the end of next year's flu season. In partnership with the Waisman facility,...ernative to immunizations, and one that could make flu vaccines for the seasonal flu and bird flu more effective. According to CytoDyn, the vaccine uses ...

Prodesse begins clinical trials for flu virus detection

...hcare institutions have begun clinical trials on a flu detection product developed by Prodesse, Inc. , a...help laboratories detect and differentiate several flu viruses, including Influenza A and B and the Respiratory Syncytial Virus . Prodesse has been wor...

Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents

...pid, automated diagnostic device to test for avian flu and the majority of potential bioterrorism agents....RNA viruses that cause hemorrhagic fevers. Avian flu , another agent, is of grave concern because it can be spread from birds to humans, and potentially ...

Wisconsin's role in health a focus of biotech event

...s prevented the spread of avian and other types of flu in cell cultures and mice, but it might be three o..., that can rapidly detect viruses that cause avian flu and other respiratory diseases. The technology, which can detect multiple viruses in one test, is be...

Thomson lends perspective to stem cell expectations

...d two other prominent UW-Madison scientists, avian flu researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Internet security researcher Paul Barford, spoke before a gathering of about 30 executive leaders with UW educations. Morgridge convened the meeting to emphasize the university's prowess at producing leaders of major ...

UW compound counters Avian flu

...ollowing scenario: an outbreak of the deadly avian flu virus begins quietly in scattered areas of the cou...heir potency and amid heightened fears of an avian flu pandemic. But time might not be on the side of researchers. There currently are no effective vacc...

Technology played key role in E. coli alerts

...amination may not inspire as much fear as an avian flu pandemic, but it opens a window into the ongoing effort by health officials to control disease outbreaks more effectively with information technology. "Outbreaks are only recognized as outbreaks when they come to the attention of public health agenc...

EraGen set to highlight diagnostic products at BIO

...role in rapidly detecting viruses that cause avian flu and other respiratory illnesses. "We will also highlight the recent success with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bayer Health Care in the area of cystic fibrosis and [with] Promega Corp . in the life sciences market," Reynolds said. "Th...

Will technology improve healthcare delivery?

...ill technology help? The pending threat of Avian flu and its potential for catastrophic human mortality...stems to help detect and mitigate the effects of a flu pandemic, which would cause significant social and economic disruptions before running its course. ...

IT may take a back seat in fighting avian flu

... the eventual spread of a virulent strain of avian flu than will any reliance on information technology, ...stems to help detect and mitigate the effects of a flu pandemic, which would cause significant social and economic disruptions before running its course. ...

Digital Healthcare Conference marks Wisconsin's Healthcare IT Week

..., part 2 And for more on Chaiken's view of avian flu and the potential for a human pandemic in the near...ew for WTN: Barry Chaiken: Preparing for avian flu with information technology Interview: Dr. Barry Chaiken on changing healthcare, AI and pandemic...

Preparing for avian flu with information technology

Avian flu is the newest threat to our safety. We know its st...Services describes potential scenarios of pandemic flu that cause significant social and economic disruption. In one scenario modeled on the pandemic of 19...

EraGen diagnostic passes UW tests, could quickly detect bird flu

...role in rapidly detecting viruses that cause avian flu and other respiratory illnesses is close to passin... EraGen products in the context of responding to a flu pandemic, but Peter Donahue, director of product development for EraGen, could not pinpoint when the...

Interview: Dr. Barry Chaiken on healthcare IT

...care Conference about IT's role in responding to a flu pandemic. Where is the greatest benefit or need inside the hospital? Chaiken: I think the greatest values of IT in the clinical setting are going to be emergency room tracking if they have an available ER because that's going to be slammed, and...

UW shows why avian flu hasn't spread among humans yet

...or receptor that is the key that permits the avian flu virus to enter a cell. Flu viruses, like many oth...erinary Medicine, is that existing strains of bird flu must undergo key genetic changes to become the type of flu pathogen most feared by biomedical scient...

Wisconsin stands at the center of scientific efforts to avert flu epidemics

Welcome to Wisconsin, the flu capital of North America. Don't take that title ...ation against the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, research to make flu viruses more effective, and testing to determine whether flu samples are...

Flu institute a booster shot for Wisconsin biotech stature

... of research into the most basic properties of the flu virus, and help prepare for a possible pandemic ca...ccine exists with some effectiveness against avian flu in humans, but production is slow because the nation has neglected immunization infrastructure. He e...

IT critical in pandemic response, but many are not paying attention

...'s not a matter of if, but when. And when pandemic flu hits an event that could, at the least, keep larg...sources such as the federal government's pandemic flu site , people can obtain vetted knowledge about the flu, what to do about it, and where it has or ha...

Immune boosting beverage relying on Milwaukee firm's packaging technology

...ing marketed as an aid to holding off the cold and flu is using the packaging technology of a Milwaukee company. New York-based Brain Twist Inc. is launching Defense Vitamin & Mineral Supplement -- a vitamin and mineral enhanced immune boosting beverage utilizing the FreshCan technology of Degussa Fr...

Rodney Dykehouse of Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin warns against tech for its own sake

...For example, where a person wasn't charged for all flu shots the electronic medical records would make this more accurate and timely," Dykehouse said. Billing gets easier too. In the paper world, charts sat stacked on the practitioner's desk after a patient visit, Dykehouse said. Electronic records can...

UW-Madison spinoff Pedrus finds more to business planning than good science

...siness Plan Contest , may put a stop to the annual flu vaccine hoopla, among other things. Founders Curtis Brandt and Hansi Dean, both UW-Madison researchers, are developing two drugs based on antiviral peptides discovered in Brandt's lab. One shuts down respiratory viruses such as flu, while the other ...

Presidential candidates stretch necks and facts

...thy still pay the lion's share of U.S. taxes. On flu vaccine : In the third debate, Bush tripped up when asked about the shortage of flu vaccine in the United States. He said the nation relied on a company out of England for the flu vacc...

Want to squeeze U.S. pharmaceutical companies? Be careful what you ask for

If you miss getting a flu shot this season and you want to fix blame when yo...re a part of the problem. The looming shortage of flu vaccine comes down to the fact that very few American drug companies are left in the business of mak...

Tech Digest: whats moving in the Midwest

...of Tokyo. Scientists have long speculated why the flu that year was so deadly. Kawaoka's study supports ...he effect. It also favors the theory that the 1918 flu crossed over from birds to humans, as avian flu is doing in Asia today. The results are published i...

Federal command center is at the front line of defense for public health emergencies

...farm in Texas. Soon, there are reports of the same flu strain on farms in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New ... How can health officials be mobilized to stop the flu from making the leap from birds to humans? That process may well begin at the All-Emergency Room, t...