Medical politics, health policy. Party health platforms, promise and performance.

Health policy in the United States is a product of medical politics. "Medical politics" includes not only traditional patterns of interest group pressures but traditional political party philosophies and patient expectations as well. Characteristic Republican politics reflects narrower governmental spending and greater emphasis on support of entrepreneurial effort.

Biohazard potential: recovery of infectious virus from the liquid nitrogen of a virus repository.

Flame-sealed glass ampules containing vesicular stomatitis (VSV) were submerged in a liquid nitrogen (LN2) refrigerator for storage. Onseveral occasions cracked or shattered ampules were discovered upon removal from the refrigerator. Subsequently, VSV was recovered from the LN2 of the virus repository indicating a source of potential danger to those employing glass ampules submerged in LN2 for preservation of pathogenic organisms.