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Fate of Retired Research Chimps Still in Limbo

23 May 2024 at 05:03
The National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico, has no plans to move the animals to sanctuary, despite a ruling from a federal judge.

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Carlee, a chimpanzee living in Chimp Haven, a 200-acre sanctuary in Louisiana that serves as the designated retirement home for federally owned chimps.

Dr. Paul Parkman, Who Helped to Eliminate Rubella, Dies at 91

21 May 2024 at 22:13
He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.

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Dr. Paul D. Parkman, right, and Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. inspecting a culture of the rubella virus in 1967. Working with a team of researchers, they created a vaccine for the disease.

U.S. Tightens Rules on Risky Virus Research

A long-awaited new policy broadens the type of regulated viruses, bacteria, fungi and toxins, including those that could threaten crops and livestock.

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Working inside a biosafety Level 3 lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2020.

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Cures

28 April 2024 at 05:00
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.

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Dr. Sanjeev Arora, a gastroenterologist in Albuquerque, founded Project ECHO in the early 2000s to connect primary care doctors in sparsely populated areas with specialists. ECHO’s New Mexico hepatitis C program has provided treatment for more than 10,000 patients.
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