September 28, 2009

Reaching Across Disciplines, Math and Medicine Join Forces to Fight Flu

By Paul Basken

With a potential influenza pandemic on the way, some of the most critical university research and analysis might be coming from those trained in subjects other than medicine.

They include Jan Medlock, an assistant professor of mathematics at Clemson University, who published a report in August that could help redefine guidelines for how to allocate scarce supplies of vaccine.

Federal health officials have

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