Both Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) and Trivalent Inactivated Vaccine (TIV) provide Protection against novel A/H1N1, especially against severe disease Immunization with either live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV, also known as FluMist®), or trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV), appears to offer a protection (~ 45%) against the novel A/H1N1 virus, the cause of the present [...]
Nov 21 2009 | Posted in
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Riki Ellison, President and Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org details his thoughts on the new missile defense plan announced yesterday by the Department of Defense. His analysis and comments are as follows: President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made a historic announcement yesterday to rescind on previous agreements [...]
On July 30th, off the north west coast, a few hundred miles from Kauai on a breezy warm afternoon, the USS Hopper ( DDG 70 ) destroyer successfully tracked, discriminated and intercepted an ARAV ballistic missile target in its ascent phase. Time of interception was at 5:43 pm HST, 3 minutes after the target missile [...]
Robert Young, 56, a former captain in the U.S. Army, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to steal fuel worth approximately $39.6 million from the U.S. Army in Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana J. Boente. Young, a [...]
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Even as the global economic crisis consumes President Obama’s attention — and the nation’s resources — he still must focus on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the situation in Pakistan. The new Brookings Institution Press book Budgeting for Hard Power: Defense and Security Spending Under Barack Obama (June 2009) analyzes the competing demands [...]
Study Finds Fossil Fuels & National Grid Threaten Military, Economic, Climate Security Identifies Critical Opportunities for DoD Leadership & Innovation America’s energy posture constitutes a serious and urgent threat to national security — militarily, diplomatically and economically, according to a blue-ribbon panel of top-ranking retired admirals and generals. In a report released today entitled “Powering [...]
Human Rights Organization Applauds First Step in Return to the Rule of Law Amnesty International welcomed the new U.S. administration’s moves to suspend military commission proceedings at Guantanamo as a “positive sign,” and said that it hoped it was a “clear signal of this administration’s intention to move away from unlawful practices of the past.” [...]