Ministers say the threat of swine flu remains serious The first genetic code of swine flu from European samples has been unravelled by UK researchers. The Health Protection Agency has also announced it has now shared isolates of the UK virus ...Read More
Massachusetts led the nation in vaccinating its residents against both swine flu and seasonal flu during fall and winter, according to a state report to be released tomorrow. Thirty-six percent of residents were inoculated against the swine strain, also known as ...Read More
The H1N1 virus blamed for taking thousands of lives last year nationally has so far this year been responsible for the deaths of two Harris County residents. A woman in the 25-49 age range succumbed March 8 from H1N1, according to ...Read More
LONDON - Pregnant women with swine flu are 13 times more likely to become critically ill than non-pregnant women infected with H1N1, concludes a new study. The research, published on bmj.com, included pregnant women in Australia and New Zealand. Boffins concluded that ...Read More
The likelihood of a third wave of pandemic H1N1 influenza appears to be declining as all indicators of swine flu activity remain low throughout the bulk of the country, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control ...Read More
* WHO confirms first shipment of 1.1 mln doses to Cuba * Nigeria, Kenya and S. Africa among dozen to get doses * Virus continues to spread in West Africa * Experts to examine WHO handling of pandemic April 12-14 GENEVA, March 19 (Reuters) ...Read More
March 16, 2010 -- It's no wildfire, but H1N1 swine flu continues to smolder in the U.S. From mid-January to mid-February, the CDC estimates there were 2 million new cases of H1N1 swine flu, causing 18,000 hospitalizations, and about 310 deaths. From ...Read More
Swine flu came in like a lion but seems to be going out like a lamb. And the regular flu season never even got started. After scaring the bejeebers out of us last spring and fall, the H1N1 virus seems to ...Read More
About 12,000 Americans died from swine flu between its emergence last April until mid-February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated on Friday. While swine flu is still being transmitted at low levels and some people still die of ...Read More
For much of 2009, the swine flu was the biotech industry's cash cow. The virus's sudden contagion last spring spread rapidly and lucratively to the local life sciences community, where a handful of companies scrambled to assemble enough money and ...Read More
The H1N1 swine flu outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that United Nations bureaucrats predicted and more like roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage. From the beginning the World Health Organization's actions have ranged ...Read More
ST. CHARLES, Missouri (Reuters) - President Barack Obama declared on Wednesday the "time for talk is over" and urged the U.S. Congress to vote on healthcare as his health secretary directly challenged insurers to forgo profits to make coverage more ...Read More
WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- The H1N1 swine flu appears to spread more slowly than "regular" seasonal flu in a household setting, but when it does spread it's more likely to affect children, a new study suggests. "We found that ...Read More
* Sebelius says costs will keep rising without reform Regulatory News | Bonds | Global Markets * Industry spokeswoman cites "alarm" about cost growth * Sebelius urges industry to stop fighting reform WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up the pressure on health insurance companies on Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits and stop fighting President Barack Obama's health reform plans. "You can choose to take the millions of dollars ...Read More
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform. Obama and his health ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Europe is unlikely to see another wave of pandemic H1N1 flu soon but local epidemics are likely as winter returns to the Northern hemisphere, health officials said on Monday. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health insurers should post information about rising premiums for certain customers on their company websites to justify rising costs, the U.S. health secretary said in a letter to several insurers on Monday.
Kathleen Sebelius, in letters to ...Read More
Sebelius: Bid for GOP support delayed health care
WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) says health care reform would have been 'dead on arrival' if the White House had sent a finished proposal to Congress last year.
The secretary also blames ...Read More
