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Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.

The Technical Symposium on Corrosive Imported Drywall will take place Thursday and Friday in Tampa.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:59 p.m. Even though the regular flu season has yet to start, the nation is facing a severe shortage of seasonal flu vaccine as well as swine flu vaccine.

The H1N1 flu virus has killed a school-age child in Genesee County, the first Rochester-area fatality linked to the disease.

Iowa Department of Public Health officials reported Tuesday the first death of an Iowa child related to the H1N1 flu virus.

State health officials said Monday that there are fewer than 1 million doses of H1N1 vaccine allocated to Michigan right now, but there are 5 million people -- about half of those in the state -- who are high-risk individuals in need of the vaccine.

A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday in what is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline in the United States.

The United States has 31.8 million H1N1 flu vaccine doses available and is on track to have another 10 million ready by week's end, a federal health official said Tuesday.

A House committee looks into the federal response to the H1N1 virus at a hearing today on Capitol Hill.

Swine flu can cause severe disease in people of all ages and appears to pose a special threat to those who are obese, according to an analysis of H1N1 cases in California released on Tuesday.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry , and numerous state departments of health have been working together to investigate and analyze how Chinese made drywall ...

Despite the known dangers of the H1N1 swine flu to certain high-risk groups, the debate still rages over the so-called swine flu vaccine.

About 1 in 8 U.S. births are premature. Early births are much less common most of Europe; for example, only 1 in 18 babies are premature in Ireland and Finland.

Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and birth defects.

Up to 30 million doses of vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 flu have been delivered to the U.S. government and production is now picking up, officials said on Monday.

Ground beef, frequently used in hamburgers, is under recall by the Fairbank Farm in upstate Ashville, N.Y. A ROCHESTER, N.Y. a ' A federal health official says two deaths and 26 other illnesses may be linked to ground beef recalled by a New York meat company because it might have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

The declaration of a national emergency has raised a number of questions across the United States about safely assembling for school and worship during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Health officials are urging Michigan businesses to be ready to be flexible about employee absences.

Have you heard of "the fat gap?" It's a term that sprang up last month, when a survey in Great Britain found the majority of overweight people there are oblivious to the fact that they're heavy.

GBS is the most common cause of sepsis and meningitis in newborns in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .