University of Michigan Places Restrictions on Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Due to Flammability

If other colleges and universities across the country choose to follow the University of Michigan’s lead, a recent decision by officials at the Ann Arbor school could put a huge dent in the bottom lines of several companies in the $100-million hand sanitizer industry. It could also make centers of higher education across the country more safe. Read all about it here.

CDC Says One Thing, Does Another

After reading in a news report that Tom Gottlieb, the head of Australia’s top infectious disease organization, has serious reservations about the way H1N1 vaccine will be administered to people in his country, I became curious as to how officials in the United States plan to administer the vaccine. Not surprisingly, I learned that officials in both countries plan to use multi-dose vials.

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