Avian flu vaccine produces limited success. Researchers claimed only partial success Thursday in the largest human trial of an avian flu vaccine. [News Source]

Early testing shows U.S. bird flu vaccine modestly effective. The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is only modestly effective, producing apparent protection in slightly more than half the people who receive two mega-dose shots. [News Source]

Doubt cast on stockpile of a vaccine for bird flu. A bird flu vaccine being stockpiled by the government in preparation for a possible pandemic protects only about half the people who receive it, scientists are reporting. [News Source]

Cancer funding faces $40 million cut. Facing the deepest cut in federal research funding in a generation, cancer scientists and their supporters are mounting a last-minute lobbying push in Congress to reverse President Bush's proposed $40 million reduction. [News Source]

Smoking’s still bad for you. Every few weeks we get a story that upends everything you were told last year. The only item that never gets its properties revised is the humble cigarette. [News Source]

`The mark of the beast.’ Government officials say tracking animals is all about protecting public health. But former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore thinks the tracking system is a dire threat to personal liberty. [News Source]

Avian flu over the cuckoo’s nest. Is it Mother Nature or Father Human Greed whom we have to blame for avian flu? [News Source]

Fear of virus is sickest thing about bird flu. Fear causes the public to blur the distinction between birds and people, and so, as the H5N1 virus infects flocks of birds in Pakistan and Israel, nightly news watchers track the path to the United States. [News Source]

Officials urge businesses, local officials, households to prepare for pandemic. Businesses, local officials and even individuals who don't think they need to prepare for a predicted global outbreak of dangerous flu could be in for a bad surprise. [News Source]

Local labs wary of bird flu. A network of medical laboratories set up as an early warning system against bioterrorism is joining the battle against bird flu. [News Source]

The 1918 flu killed millions. Does it hold clues for today? As another bird flu spreads across the globe, killing domestic fowl and some wild birds and, ominously, infecting and killing more than 100 people as well, many scientists are looking back to 1918. [News Source]

How serious is the risk? Over the last year, it has been impossible to watch TV or read a newspaper without encountering dire reports about bird flu and the possibility of a pandemic, a worldwide epidemic. [News Source]