I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Washington, D.C., beat all 50 states to post the highest rates in the nation for the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.
World Health Organization (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
As of 15 November 2009, worldwide more than 206 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 6750 deaths.
Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ONE.The authors of the new study, from Imperial College London, the University of Reading and the University of North Carolina, USA, argue that it is very unlikely that two genetic mutations would occur at the same...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex:INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that a combination of its synthetic consensus H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, and H5N1 influenza vaccine candidates achieved protective antibody responses against several different influenza sub-types and strains in ferrets. In addition, ferrets immunized with Inovio’s...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. ‘The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Ben Flanagan Tusk writer Perusing the Sunday circulars led to isolated incidents of sudden nausea. Open up Best Buy or Target’s catalogues, turn to their DVD sales, and you’ll find something we haven’t really seen since Leo, JTT or ’N Sync. Unless my eyes mistook the regrettable image, I’d swear they saw a new disc titled “Rob-sessed.” In fact, after several...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
RATES OF swine flu infection in the population have continued to decline over the past week and the current wave of the pandemic in the Republic has probably peaked, health officials confirmed yesterday.
PandemicFlu.gov (Free subscription) | yesterday
To date, WHO has received vaccination information from 16 of around 40 countries conducting national H1N1 pandemic vaccine campaigns.
College & University Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Your cook has the sniffles. Can you require him to tell you his symptoms? Can you send him home even if he says he "feels fine"? Can you ask him if he has been traveling and where he has been to see if he has recently visited a pandemic "hot ...
Patently-O: Patent Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have posted a short draft essay to SSRN that is being published in the Seton Hall Law Review as part of their annual Health Law Symposium. The overall topic of the symposium is Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to...
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
# 4049 The numbers don’t reflect reality, but the trends and percentages are probably useful in these reports from the WHO. The maps, as of this posting, are not updated from next week but preWsumably will be soon. Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 75 Weekly update 20 November 2009 -- As of 15 November 2009, worldwide more than 206 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory...
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
The habit of blaming someone in an organisation, even if he or she is innocent, is picked up by others and spreads like wildfire, says a new study.
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byrd543658522 | 11/18/2009
Recurrent occurrence of cold and flu damage your health. In fact the recurrent occurrence of cold and flu is a warning symptom of some more serious health complication. Most of us have suffered with the flu, but we get the medications and get well. But, in some people you will notice that they suffer with the flu more times than a normal person. This is up course not good for the health. The recurrent...
krishpatel1212@gmail | 11/14/2009
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