The new strain of H1N1 flu is causing
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 19, 2009
The new strain of H1N1 flu is causing something different to happen in the United States this year -- perhaps an extended year-round flu season that disproportionately hits young people, health officials said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 19, 2009
British researchers suggested that targeting kids for vaccination may help control the swine flu pandemic, the Global times reported on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 18, 2009
Matrixx Initiatives Inc, which stopped selling its cold medicine Zicam on Tuesday, said it had 800 consumer complaints about the product but did not give it to regulators.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 18, 2009
U.S. employers will see healthcare costs rise 9 percent in 2010 and they expect their workers to pay a greater share of their health plans, consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 18, 2009
In what maybe the epicenter of the H1N1 pandemic, Hong Kong reported more new cases of human infections on Thursday, bringing the total number of infections to 221 in the city.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 18, 2009
The H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, continued to ravage Hong Kong as 54 new cases were reported on Wednesday, up an astonishing 46% over a 24-hour period.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 17, 2009
Mexico's navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 17, 2009
Texas cardiologist, James Rohack was on Tuesday inaugurated as president of the American Medical Association in Chicago.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 16, 2009
Dr. Donald Palmisano spokesman for the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights and former president of the American Medical Association said on Monday Obama “prescribed the wrong treatment” with his plans to improve the country’s healthcare system.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
Hong Kong's human swine flu tally has reached 104 with 12 new cases conformed, the Centre for Health Protection said on Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
President Barack Obama, on Monday said the healthcare system is “a ticking bomb” which could send the U.S. government down the same road as that of General Motors and go broke if the healthcare system is not reformed.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
Swiss drugs company Novartis will not give free vaccines against H1N1 flu to poor countries, though it will consider discounts, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd hopes to put its H1N1 vaccine through its first clinical trial by the end of July, as pharmaceutical firms race to put vaccines against the new flu virus into commercial production.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
Europe recorded its first death from H1N1 flu on Sunday after Scottish health officials said a patient with the disease had died, just days after the World Health Organisation labelled the outbreak a global pandemic.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
Europe recorded its first death from H1N1 flu on Sunday after Scottish health officials said a patient with the disease had died, just days after the World Health Organization labeled the outbreak a global pandemic.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
With Congress working to flesh out controversial elements of his healthcare reform plan, President Barack Obama will make his case for a public insurance program to the nation's doctors on Monday, seeking to overcome their resistance.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 15, 2009
The first death caused by the A(H1N1) virus outside of the Americas was confirmed Sunday by the British government following the death of a Scottish patient in Scotland.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 14, 2009
The patients are gone and so are the protesters. Once the site of daily anti-abortion picketing, the Kansas clinic run by murdered doctor George Tiller is busy only with workers shutting down the facility.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 14, 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared influenza pandemic on Thursday and called on flu vaccine manufacturers to make enough shots to protect people against flu pandemic.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 11, 2009
New research suggests that as the frequency of vigorous exercise increases, so does the risk of atrial fibrillation.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 11, 2009
The spread of the ‘swine flu’ also known as the H1N1 flu strain, was officially declared a pandemic on Thursday by the World Health Organization whose director said perhaps her greatest concern is how the virus will behave in the developing world.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 11, 2009
