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Biotech / Medical : BJCT-BIOJECT-needle less injection product -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GREG FINLEY who wrote (348)	12/27/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: geewiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 534

Hi Greg, everybody elce must be sking! I've been thinking over the holiday about the Powerject press release. "1000 more efficient" now what the sam hill does that mean? I'll do some research and post any results. I get so busy running around with my own busniness that I use the holiday season to catch-up on reading. later, art

To: GREG FINLEY who wrote (348)	1/17/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: geewiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 534

Hi Greg, all, I know I posted a link to the Chronicle aritcle before the holidays, but the link was to the first of a series of three articles, so at the risk of overloading the thread, I now post a link to the three with an excerpt from the last of the three: sfgate.com For private use; DEADLY NEEDLES Epidemic's Devastating Toll Reynolds Holding, William Carlsen, Chronicle Staff Writers Thursday, October 29, 1998 For Peter Evans and other WHO officials, the news was bad and getting worse. In 1994, surveys showed that each year in the developing world, up to a third of the 1 billion immunizations -- and half of the other 9 billion injections -- were unsterile. And using a mathematical model created two years earlier, researchers calculated the risks of reusing contaminated syringes. The initial findings, though incomplete, were ''alarming,'' the researchers said. The new information put Evans, a WHO immunization expert, and his colleagues in a bind. Publicizing the dangers of unsafe injections could undermine the agency's immunization programs by deterring parents from having their children vaccinated against such deadly diseases as tuberculosis, diphtheria and tetanus. But failing to alert the public could unnecessarily expose millions of people to HIV, hepatitis and other lethal viruses. One high-level WHO official called it a ''schizophrenic'' situation akin to ''walking on a minefield.'' In the end, Evans said, he and his colleagues would ''low key'' the crisis --and protect the immunization programs to which they had devoted their lives. .................. copywrite S.F. Chronicle later, art