| We can't say that we're happy with the Medical School's response to Merck's new HPV vaccine. This bad product is being foisted on college and high school students across the country. Here you can read about the Medical School's response--in an essay that prompted Merck to build a computer "firewall" to prevent any Merck employee from reading it. CLICK |
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| The campus of the Indiana University Medical School and the IU Law School and IUPUI are all located together near downtown Indianapolis. The spacious setting is one of the most pleasant one can experience at an urban university, although the Med School portion can be a bit of a labyrinth. University Library of IUPUI is an architectural gem in which "form" and "function" are nearly one and the same thing--as Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright dictated that they should be. |
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| After publishing the statement that, "All viruses are male," in 1994, we argued the matter verbally with two people at the IU Med School including a young woman who was then a medical student. Although they both agreed the idea was reasonable, we unfortunately didn't get either of their names. But that background gave us confidence to start e-mailing microbiologists nationwid,e in order to conduct a broader discussion. MORE |
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| In 1992 David Gaus suggested that human papilloma virus (HPV) can, at times, be generated from sperm. That hypothesis was based on a paper by IU researchers. MORE: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) |
| "Alteration in the Regularory Region of the Human Papillomavirus Type 6 Genome are Generated During Propagation in Escherichia Coli." That was the interesting title of a paper in Journal of Virology (Sept 1988, page 3295.) The authors were Mary S. Kasher and Ann Roman of the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology at IU School of Medicine. In our thinking, the alteration described in the paper provides an interesting example of "the law of organizational constraint." MORE |