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Recent News

Boston Globe . "Gene advances bring ethical quandaries". May 11, 2007.

NPR Marketplace . "A virtual visit to the doctor". January 19, 2007.

Science Magazine. "Netwatch: Diseases on the move". December 1, 2006.

Harvard Focus. "Personnally Controlled Health Records: Are They the Next Big Thing?". October 27, 2006.

Wired Magazine. "Get Your Daily Plague Forecast". October 19. 2006.

LA Times. "Most unwelcome traveling companions: flu and cold bugs". October 22, 2006.

BBC World Service Radio. Science in Action. September 15. 2006

USA Today. "Travel slump after 9/11 slowed spread of influenza, study shows". September 12, 2006.

Discovery Channel. "Flu Season Delayed After 9/11". September 12, 2006.

CBC's The National (Video). "Grounding of 9/11 flights delayed flu season: study". September 12, 2006.

Science Magazine. "Aches on a Plane". September 11, 2006.

New York Times. "Speed of Spread of Flu Is Linked to Airline Travel". September 12, 2006.


Personally controlled health records

Science Magazine. "Netwatch: Diseases on the move". December 1, 2006.

Harvard Focus. "Personnally Controlled Health Records: Are They the Next Big Thing?". October 27, 2006.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "CDC Awards Health Protection Research Initiative Grants" October 2004

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces health protection grants. October 2004

Influenza

LA Times. "Most unwelcome traveling companions: flu and cold bugs". October 22, 2006.

BBC World Service Radio. Science in Action. September 15. 2006

USA Today. "Travel slump after 9/11 slowed spread of influenza, study shows". September 12, 2006.

Discovery Channel. "Flu Season Delayed After 9/11". September 12, 2006.

CBC's The National (Video). "Grounding of 9/11 flights delayed flu season: study". September 12, 2006.

Science Magazine. "Aches on a Plane". September 11, 2006.

New York Times. "Speed of Spread of Flu Is Linked to Airline Travel". September 12, 2006.

NPR. "Shots for Kids May Be Best Flu Defense". October 5, 2005.

USA Today. "Flu Season Begins With Preschoolers, Study Confirms." October 4, 2005.

Newsweek. "Vaccinating Kids May Prevent Spread of Flu". October 3, 2005.

Washington Post. "Your Tots Are Making You Sick". October 11, 2005.

Biosurveillance and real time population health monitoring

Harvard University Gazette "Bioterrorist warning system passes test: also detects disease outbreaks" April 17, 2003

Marketplace (Public Radio International). "Pathogen Detection." April 11, 2003

Harvard Focus Magazine. "Software rings early alarm on bioterrorism." March 7, 2003.

Nature News "Harvard team suggests route to better bioterror alerts." Nature 421(6) February 6, 2003

New York Times "Tracking an Outbreak Minute by Minute." July 4, 2002

The Wall Street Journal , "Computers Could Help Health Officials Detect Bioterrorist Attacks." November 26, 2001.

The Boston Globe
."Hospitals Plan to Link to Detect Bioterror." November 20, 2002.

MIT Technology Review.
"Detecting Bioterrorism." December, 2001
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The Scientist, April 29, 2002 "Early Warning"

CIO Magazine. "Stoping Epidemics Early"June 15, 2002.

Here and Now. WBUR. October 16, 2001 (fast forward to 31:34 minutes)


Red Sox

Harvard Gazette. "ER Takes Backseat to Ballgames. Sept 29, 2004.

New York Times. Patterns: Red Sox Fever and the Lonely Emergency Room". September 27, 2005.

Scientific American. "Watching World Series Causes Drop in Hospital Visits". September 26, 2005.

Boston NPR. WBUR. "Red Sox Fever Drives Down ER Visits". September 27, 2005.

USA Today. "Never mind the emergency: the Sox are playing". September 26, 2005.

New York Times. "Patterns: Red Sox Fever and the Lonely Emergency Room". September 27, 2005.

Archive

Medical News Today. "Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants"

Health Care's Most Wired Magazine "Case Studies Electronic Disease Surveillance" September 2003

Children's News
Online "CHB takes national lead in disaster planning" July 18, 2003

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. "Worst case scenario." February 11, 2003.

Network Computing "Early Warning System." March 5, 2003.

UPI. "New computer program can track bioterror." February 3, 2003

Boston.com "New Way of Analyzing Hospital Visit Data Improves Ability to Detect Bioterrorist Attacks; Approach Could Help to Quickly, Reliably Identify Outbreaks, Speed Response." February 3, 2003

The Boston Globe. "Hospitals Begin to Address Shortcomings." September 3, 2002.

Reuters Health News. "US Developing Biological Early Warning System." November 20, 2002.

The Discovery Channel, Canada. "Bioterrorism, or the Flu?"November 19, 2002.

Harvard Public Health Review. "Harnessing the Power of Numbers."Summer 2002

Children's Hospitals Today. "Charting Advances in Electronic Records."Summer 2002.

Children's Hospital News. "Expanding the Scope." November 22, 2002.