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Pop a vitamin, ban doctors' neckties, vacuum away swine flu germs and smoke an e-cigarette to ward off H1N1.

When Dr. Matt Thompson, a pediatrician at the Kids Clinic in Spokane, Wash., found about a month ago that his six children had come down with H1N1, or swine flu, he did not give them the antiviral medication that might have made their sickness a bit shorter.

Sat, Nov 7, 2009, 12:43 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 07, Colombo: First suspected death due to influenza A-H1N1 of a child in Kandy who belonged to a high risk group is most probably due to the pneumonia related to the flu, health sources said.

Today's Question: "Is it safe to buy products over the Internet that could prevent or combat H1N1?" "There are only three products authorized by Health Canada that should be used against the H1N1 flu virus: the H1N1 vaccine Arepanrix, and the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza .

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced contract awards for up to 120,000 treatment courses of intravenous antiviral drugs to help treat hospitalized 2009 H1N1 influenza patients.

NexBio Inc., in collaboration with scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , St.

The Local Health Officer/Medical Director of the s Randolph-Elkins Health Department says there is an epidemic of the 2009 H1N1, known as "swine flu," going around the area, but residents should not be alarmed.

Dona TMt be fooled by products claiming to fight or prevent the H1N1 flu virus, Health Canada warns.

The pressure to manufacture and distribute the H1N1 vaccine before the H1N1 influenza virus begins its autumn spread is ongoing, but so far it seems that the virus may be winning.

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The World Health Organisation has shipped urgent supplies of the influenza drug Tamiflu to Mongolia, as the country's hospital system struggles to cope with a late but widespread outbreak of the H1N1 strain of flu.

With close to 500 officially confirmed deaths reported in India due to H1N1 influenza, popularly still referred to as "swine flu", and over 6,000 globally in the last six months, the flu pandemic seems far from under control.

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Editor's note: For additional articles on H1N1 , click here . People with asthma ages 6 months to 64 years should get a seasonal flu shot and the injectable 2009 H1N1 vaccine as soon as it's available in their area, according to experts from the Department of Health and Human Services and CDC.

There's nothing like a good old-fashioned pandemic to bring out the worst in people.

Doctors are suggesting that Tamiflu be sold widely so that people can treat themselves at home, but the health ministry is concerned about the flu virus developing resistance to the drug.

The New York Times reports that the CDC is releasing the last of its Tamiflu stockpile.

"More virus, more vaccine and more treatment," is how the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention summed up the current situation with H1N1 influenza.

Oct. 29, 2009 -- The Phoenix-based non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute announced today that, along with a business collaborator, it will submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of a new test to diagnose the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus.

U.S. researchers say they've spotted the first case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu virus passing between two people -- raising the specter that more widespread resistance will render the antiviral drug less useful in combating the pandemic.