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Will Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?

The Health Care Blog

This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging. In 1992, the IOM served notice with the publication of “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in The United States.” Slowly policy leaders were awakening to the global nature of the threat.