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Would you like fries with that swine flu shot? Sounds silly, but health officials in Champaign , Illinois , are serious about the effectiveness of their drive-through H1N1 vaccine program, according to the Chicago Tribune .

A growing number of children in the U.S. are being born with Down syndrome so says a federal researcher.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that well over one million people in the United States are infected with HIV/AIDS. New research from North Carolina State University shows that many of those infected are minorities and do not have health insurance, and highlights the need for a national strategy to facilitate education ...

A recent study suggests that increasing patient responsibility for making medical decisions may decrease their willingness to accept risky treatment options.

Osteoarthritis , a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University.

One thousand blocks of the Aids Memorial Quilt are displayed at the Ellipse on June 26, 2004 in Washington, D.C. Tuesday marks the twenty-first World Aids Day, and will be marked by global events around the world to try to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS prevention.

The current wave of H1N1 activity may have peaked in all provinces and territories, the Public Health Agency of Canada says in its latest assessment on the state of the pandemic.

Big businesses are spending serious time and money trying to limit the swine flu pandemic's impact on operations, from bankrolling video on good hygiene to training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs.

Nationally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports H1N1 influenza activity is widespread in 43 states and has decreased slightly.

H1N1 Flu Virus George Anter, 74, stands behind some of the medications that he uses to keep his ailments in check.

Biotech firm Replikins Ltd., which has analyzed the H1N1 virus' genomic data from the 1918 pandemic through the prediction, outbreak, and progress of the current H1N1 pandemic, issued its latest biochemical analysis of the virus.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma ; Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Flu / Cold / SARS Article Date: 27 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Children with asthma are at greater risk to develop serious symptoms from H1N1 flu than from seasonal flu, according to a new study.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada have recalled 2.1 million Stork Craft cribs after four suffocation deaths.

The H1N1 vaccine has many parents worried sick about whether or not to give the vaccine to their children, and it's not just parents who are anti-vaccines that are worried, but it's also parent's who vaccinate their children and give them the seasonal flu vaccine.

America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are testing 97 medicines and vaccines to treat or prevent HIV/AIDS and related conditions, according to a new report released by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America .

An Alexandria teenager is slowly learning to walk again after he lost the ability possibly because of a swine flu shot.

Alaskans are losing the battle of the bulge. A Centers for Disease Control study says Alaska is the most overweight state this side of Texas.

A woman receives an H1N1 vaccination during a drive-through vaccination clinic earlier this month at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, Calif.

Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, new research says.

AUGUSTA – Two more deaths have been reported due to H1N1 influenza in Maine, bringing the total to nine since August, according to the Maine CDC in the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Disease Control issued a warning Wednesday that catching the H1N1 virus can put patients at risk, not only of developing complications, but serious bacterial pneumonia.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight , according to a Loyola University Health System study.

The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain and the United States that the H1N1 flu may have developed resistance to Tamiflu in people with severely suppressed immune systems, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Infant Deaths Spur Recall of 2.1 Million Stork Craft Cribs Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : In an effort to remedy a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine in nursing homes, U.S. health officials are trying to shift vaccine supplies away from chain pharmacies and supermarkets.

Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007.

In adolescent girls, the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections is substantial, and human papillomavirus is the most common infection, according to a study published online Nov.

Fewer Minnesota residents are being sickened with the H1N1 flu as the supply of vaccine catches up with demand, but people should take precautions over Thanksgiving, a health official said Tuesday.

It is possible to contract the H1N1 virus twice, a West Virginia doctor learned the hard way, Charleston's Daily Mail reported.

The downpours add an extra hazard on top of intense concerns about the spread of swine flu.

Some areas of the United States are seeing declines in H1N1 swine flu activity, a federal health official said Friday, and while the disease remains widespread in 43 states, that's down from the 46 states reported last week.

Influenza, particularly H1N1, has understandably captured the attention of public health officials, the media and the public.

If anyone needs another reason to stop smoking while pregnant, or to rid a home of lead, a new study suggests that children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy and who are exposed to lead have more than twice the usual risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder .

Let us give thanks - and pass the Purell. Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving.

Fifteen Needham firefighters and several Needham residents were caught in a medical mix-up when the H1N1 vaccine they thought they were getting turned out to be a vaccine for another strain of flu.

A lawsuit filed against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a patient at the center of a 2007 tuberculosis scare has been dismissed.

The Ohio Department of Health submitted an order for 438,900 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday afternoon.

U.S. teens are getting sex education, but most are not learning about birth control from their parents, new government data showed on Thursday.

GENEVA a ' Nearly 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy or who were exposed to lead have more than double the risk of having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as other children, new research shows.

Most Tennessee counties' obesity rates exceed 30 percent, and diabetes rates were 10.5 percent or higher.

The momentum of the H1N1 flu outbreak has fallen off, but flu activity is still high and Tamiflu-resistant virus may have begun to spread.

Health departments in North Carolina already burdened with the outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus have an additional worry - a dramatic increase in the number of cases of syphilis.

Pregnancy-related changes in your immune and respiratory systems mean that you are at higher risk for flu-related complications.

China has promised severe punishment for officials caught concealing deaths from H1N1 swine flu after a medical expert said suspect cases may have been held back by local governments.

As a large number of Wichitans finalize their travel plans for the Thanksgiving holiday, directives were issued Thursday by federal officials advising travelers to have their papers in order.

Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.

Nov. 20, 2009 - The current wave of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic may have peaked in the U.S., new CDC figures suggest.

Confronted with a public smoking ban, higher sin taxes and more anti-smoking efforts, fewer Ohioans are lighting up.

A college in Minneapolis is alerting students and staff to a case of bacterial meningitis.

The Canada Revenue Agency's pandemic-planning scenario explored the grim possibility of 65 deaths among its 45,000 employees, hundreds of workers hospitalized and thousands of others ill.

Are phthalates really safe for children? Phthalates are important components of many consumer products, including toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items.

As U.S. health officials struggle to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the pandemic of swine flu, some are looking regretfully at one easy way to instantly double or triple the number of doses available -- by using an immune booster called an adjuvant.

Swine flu: Is the worst behind us? Nov. 20: New numbers on reported swine flu cases show the epidemic may have reached its peak in the U.S. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.

WASHINGTON -- Ohio residents deemed most at risk for the H1N1 virus should have been vaccinated by now, and vaccination efforts now are focusing on a larger at-risk population, the state health director said.

A nurse walks by a triage tent that was set up outside of the emergency room at Sutter Delta Medical Center April 30, 2009 in Antioch, California.

A recent study determined there is a significant risk of seizure for individuals who currently smoke cigarettes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a new "Travel Well" campaign just in time for the holidays.

When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.

SYDNEY: You never consume trans fats, have reduced caffeine, and rarely eat cheese.

The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: Public Health Stroke A police officer who works the night shift, typically from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., already is at a disadvantage when it comes to getting a good "night's" sleep.

The Clay County Health Department will conduct another H1N1 vaccination clinic for county residents from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, at the Clay County Courthouse.

China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world's most populous country by year's end.

Vaccine makers praised the U.S. response to the swine flu pandemic on Wednesday but said regulatory delays and public suspicion have held up innovative ways to speed and stretch the U.S. influenza vaccine supply.

Pandemic H1N1 influenza "is here . . . in virtually the entire country," Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

In 10 years, half of adult Ohioans are expected to be obese, according to a new study to be released Tuesday, Nov.

Just days after announcing Americans are smoking more, the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed our health is worsening in another preventable way - the prevalence of sexually-transmitted diseases is climbing.

As a nationwide shortage of swine flu vaccine stretched into its sixth week, U.S. health officials defended how they handled the program, arguing that the roots of the shortage were beyond their control and that they had made the right decisions on matters they could affect.

Runny nose, fever, cough, even pneumonia -- the symptoms sound like swine flu but children hospitalized at one U.S. hospital in fact had a rhinovirus, better known as a common cold virus, doctors said on Tuesday.

Many people in the United States are still not being screened for high levels of so-called bad cholesterol, and when they are found to have it, are often never treated, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Last summer, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined who should receive the H1N1 vaccine when it became available -- including who should be given highest priority if there were limited doses.

People who have had repeated flu infections -- or repeated flu vaccines -- may have some protection against the new pandemic swine influenza, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

The rate of thyroid cancer cases in counties closest to the Indian Point nuclear plant 35 miles north of midtown Manhattan are the highest in New York State, and among the highest in the U.S., according to a scientific journal article released today.

Nov. 16, 2009 -- As the number of deaths related to the pandemic H1N1 virus, commonly known as "swine flu," continues to rise, researchers have been scrambling to decipher its inner workings and explain why the incidence is lower than expected in older adults.

Pediatric food allergies, which can sometimes be life-threatening, are increasing at a dramatic rate in the United States, new research shows.

Some smoke just a few cigarettes each day. Others smoke only on weekends, with certain friends or in certain places.

The swine flu epidemic has afflicted about 22 million Americans from April to October and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, the government announced Thursday.

American squeamishness about talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported Monday.

ESRI software is being used to track swine flu data. National and local health departments, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have used the Redlands-based company's geographic information systems technology to gauge concentrations of the H1N1 virus, which the CDC estimated Thursday has quadrupled in number of cases.

The first outbreak of the swine flu appears to have come and gone through local schools, but health officials are warning administrators, teachers, students and parents to stay on alert.

Meanwhile, it appears the latest wave of swine flu in the state is slowing. The Pennsylvania Department of Health will hold its first much-anticipated free, public swine flu clinics targeting high-risk individuals this weekend, but none are in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

A large new study confirms that people with severe mental disorders - such as schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders - are 25 percent to 40 percent more prone to die from heart disease than people without mental illness are.

Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of CSL Limited's 2009 H1N1, or swine, flu vaccine to include children ages six months and older.

The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said Friday it intends to "modify" some of its earlier research on Vieques, where the U.S. and its allies trained for conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq.

Share + Comments Nov 14, 2009 11:00 am US/Eastern DALLAS With the threat of H1N1, the CDC is now focusing on air filtration in airplanes.

A fourth person has died from complications of the H1N1 virus, according to the Pendleton County Health Department.

After decades of progress, the number of Americans who smoke hasn't budged over the last five years and actually rose slightly from 2007 to 2008, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A northern Virginia family says their lives were turned upside down just 24 hours after getting their 14-year-old son received his seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccines.

Governor David A. Paterson today announced that county health departments across New York are mobilizing to conduct H1N1 flu vaccination clinics as more vaccine becomes available in the State.

Watch your back, West Virginia. Indiana is now No. 2 -- and gaining -- when it comes to smoking.

More than just a bad bout of stomach flu, some food-borne illnesses can cause long-term consequences, especially for young people, a report released on Thursday has found.

Over the next several weeks, the U. S. Senate has an historic opportunity to take a major step toward improving food safety for all Americans.

The Centers for Disease Control released new flu numbers Thursday. The new numbers show that the H1N1 virus is taking a big toll on Americans.

By JAN JARVIS A large shipment of the injectable H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Tarrant County and distribution to people in the high-risk target populations will begin next week.With 14,300 doses of the vaccine available, there's no need to camp out overnight to make sure there's enough shots, which will be given from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov.

Government health officials say swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April.

Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent.

They came wrapped in blankets, toting camp chairs and huddling together under umbrellas, prepared to wait for hours Wednesday in the driving rain to be vaccinated against the H1N1 virus at the Greenville County Health Department.

Researchers report that a father in a Canadian family developed a strain of the H1N1 swine flu that was resistant to the antiviral Tamiflu, after being given the drug to prevent the disease.

This week, Google expanded its Flu Trends website to include the a oeflu shot findera that allows people in search of either an H1N1 flu vaccine or seasonal flu vaccine to easily find nearby locations offering the vaccines.

ATLANTA - Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using.

The flow of swine flu vaccines to the U.S. market is picking up, health and corporate officials said on Tuesday, and now the challenge will be to get the drugs to people.

Most students jump at the chance to take home a class pet. But one father said his kids brought home two pets from science class -- and the lizards gave them salmonella poisoning , reported WLKY-TV in Louisville.

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Sex education programs that advise students to delay sexual activity while also offering instruction on ways to avoid unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections effectively reduce risky sexual behavior, increase condom use and decrease spread of STIs, ...

About 4,000 Americans - rather than about 1,200 - have died of swine flu since the disease emerged in April, according to new figures being calculated by epidemiologists for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

In an effort to prevent the spread of swine flu, hospitals in New Jersey are being urged to suspend visiting privileges for persons younger than 18 years old.

Difficulties producing H1N1 vaccine raises concerns about the time-honored production method.

Going to school every day can be hazardous to your health - and the health of others.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, has allocated a total of 1,351,400 doses of H1N1 vaccine to Pennsylvania to date, the state Department of Health announced today.

For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

Poor cleaning of restrooms aboard cruise ships raises the risk of norovirus-caused gastrointestinal illness outbreaks, a new study finds.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported to CBS News that, based on the data available to it, 104 people died from the H1N1 virus for the week ending October 31.

Monday, November 09, 2009 at 12:39 p.m. Read more: State , Health , H1n1 , Vaccine , Nasal , Shots , Local Health Department , Hospital , Center Of Disease Control And Prevention , Ohio Department Of Health COLUMBUS- Local health departments and hospitals in all 88 Ohio counties will receive more than 400,000 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine starting ...

As the death rate of the H1N1 virus surpassed 1,000 people in the United States, Chinese medicine practitioners, Ayurvedic healers, and Latino yerberas faced a dilemma: whether to tell their clients to get the vaccine -- which is recommended by the CDC -- or to prescribe alternative treatments.

It's becoming rare to sit through an entire television program without seeing at least one commercial advertisement that's trying to convince you to get a prescription for some new medicine.

Do your part to stop the spread of swine flu: Get vaccinated. It was a rallying cry, a call to arms of sort from federal health officials after the H1N1 virus appeared last spring and began circling the globe.

On a recent flight from San Francisco, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Julie Gerberding was thrilled to get bumped up to first class.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims circle the sacred Kaaba stone at Mecca's Grand Mosque in December 2008.

The Coastal Health District, which includes Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, and McIntosh Counties, has received 1,300 doses of the injectable form of the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine.

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

CWmike writes "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an effort this week to better and more easily track for H1N1, or Swine Flu, and other seasonal influenza activity throughout the U.S. The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients from physician practices and hospitals that is stored on a relational database ...

ABSENCE OF ALTERNATIVES: The six workers on an infected pig farm in Taitung have tested negative for the illness, raising questions about how the pigs caught swine flu STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, Page 4 The Council of Agriculture rejected a claim yesterday that the influenza A virus recently detected among pigs in Taitung County ...

Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:28am EST - People practice coughing into their sleeves as a way to try to control the spread of the H1N1 swine flu virus, during a meeting for workers at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Baltimore, September 3, 2009.

The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year.

Wall Street bankers once again are the target of populist outrage, this time over the news that Goldman Sachs , Citigroup , JPMorgan Chase , and others are receiving limited doses of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.

Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.

A Penobscot County young adult is the second death linked to H1N1 influenza in Maine, and the first since August, reported the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, in a press release Friday morning, Nov.

U.S. World Health Organization Assistant Director Keiji Fukuda attends a conference on swine flu in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009.

The H1N1 swine flu virus is now the predominant flu strain worldwide, although it shows no signs of becoming more virulent and continues to produce mild-to-moderate symptoms in most people, the World Health Organization's flu chief said Thursday.

The H1N1 influenza vaccine continues to arrive in Oregon with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control predicting an estimated cumulative total of about 327,700 doses by November 6, enough to vaccinate 16.7 percent of the priority groups.

The Mississippi Department of Health has reported the state's 10th confirmed death from the H1N1, or "swine" flu.

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 .

Businesses across Michigan are bracing for the H1N1 flu by paying for vaccinations and setting out hand sanitizer, but health officials are urging them to be flexible about employee absences.

A person has died and two others were hospitalized after eating meat that may have been contaminated with E. coli, New Hampshire officials said.

Five drug companies are now increasing production of the vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, and 10 million more doses are expected next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Saturday.

NEW YORK - Last spring thousands of travelers canceled trips to Mexico after a swine flu outbreak there emptied beaches and resorts.

Newborns whose mothers got seasonal flu shots during pregnancy were less likely to be born premature, underweight, and in need of hospital care for respiratory illnesses, three new studies found.

The number of global swine flu deaths spiked by 700 in a week, the World Health Organisation said Friday, as Ukraine closed schools and cinemas in the toughest measures taken in Europe over the virus.