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HEALTH / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 6:13pm neoform

CBS News -- A 2-year-old Indiana boy and his mother contracted a rare and life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination, according to a published report. The boy and his mother were being treated in a specially ventilated room at the Un.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris St.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

CNN -- A 2-year-old Indiana boy who contracted a rare and life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination is recovering, a hospital spokesman said. Doctors have relied on some untested measures to save the boy's life, including skin.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 8:11pm neoform

CNN -- An experimental pill appears to be helping a toddler who had a near-fatal skin reaction to his father's smallpox shot, doctors said Monday. The drug, an antiviral made by Siga Technologies called ST-246, worked when more conventional treatment failed,.. Read More