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Tara...the font of your text is getting huge, increasing as your posts get older. Some kind of computer glitch?
Dave S. | 01.06.06 - 12:43 pm | #

Hmm, that's bizarre. I hate IE with blogger...a ton of wierd things turn up. That's initially why I changed my layout--it was messed up in IE, but fine in firefox. I'll investigate...
Tara | Homepage | 01.06.06 - 12:59 pm | #

Better now?
Tara Smith | 01.06.06 - 1:12 pm | #

That is some serious science.
Shawn | 01.06.06 - 1:31 pm | #

Well, we can't all sit around and search for Letterman transcripts all day.
Tara | Homepage | 01.06.06 - 1:40 pm | #

Yes better now...thanks.

I was afraid if left alone your posts would balloon to 1 gigantic 1500-point font letter per page.
Dave S. | 01.06.06 - 1:49 pm | #

My academic/research advisor is a pediatric gastroenterologist and he was telling me about RotaShield a couple days back. He said he felt it was sad that the vaccine was pulled because inteussecption is not an uncommon sequelae if rotavirus infection, and the Wyeth's withdrawal of the vaccine in the US in Oct 1999 was tantamount to a stop worldwide. Like you said, 600k deaths worldwide is a big, big deal, and I am glad to see some new comers back to pick up the RotaShield slack.

(also, did you mean two new vaccines and not viruses)
DrJon | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 10:50 am | #

Oops, yes, I did, thanks. Corrected it.
Tara Smith | Homepage | 01.08.06 - 11:35 am | #

I read in ELPAIS that another problem with this vaccine development was that the individuals where the vaccine was tested were most of them caucasian and from developed countries (80%), and both the action of the vaccine and the progression of the disease are enormously dependant on how well nourished the individuals are...
which is not the case of most countries were rotavirus is a cause of death

Thanks for your blog Tara!
Salvador Almagro | 01.13.06 - 9:01 am | #