Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
# 4083 Last Friday we learned of two hospitals – one in North Carolina ,and one in Cardiff, Wales – that reported small clusters of Tamiflu resistant H1N1 infections among their patients. Further investigation has turned up a 6th case in the Wales hospital, and there may yet be another. While these reports are concerning, and of scientific interest, it is import to remember that for now...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image: Defense mechanism: Researchers creating a new vaccine against H1N1 hope to harness the power of the immune system's dendritic cells (one such cell is shown above in blue), which are responsible for directing the body's immune response. Credit: Oliver Schwartz, Institute Pasteur / Science Photo Library From Technology Review: Researchers are working to treat pandemic flu by recruiting a patient's...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Jackson’s sister Janet holds his personal doctor responsible for the singer’s death. The pop star accused Dr Conrad Murray, the prime suspect in the star’s death, for administering excessive anaesthetic drug Propofol. “He was the one administering… I think he is responsible,” the Sun quoted her as saying on a US show. The grieving sister of the [...] Related...
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
Having returned to work this week, Dr. Conrad Murray has zero restrictions on his ability to access and administer Propofol, the drug that killed Michael Jackson.
The Hollywood Gossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Having returned to work this week, Dr. Conrad Murray has zero restrictions on his ability to access and administer Propofol, the drug that killed Michael Jackson. That's a little disturbing, don't you think? According to TMZ, Dr. Murray still has full privileges to practice and operate at Doctors Hospital Tidwell in Houston, and Propofol is available for Murray's use. As for ordering the drug, which...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - 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.
hollywood news and gossips (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Last week in a Good Morning America interview, Janet Jackson said that because Dr. Conrad Murray was the one administering the anesthetic Propofol to her brother Michael, he should be held responsible for the music icon's death. Janet's sister La Toya had no intention of being so diplomatic. In an interview with the UK's Daily Mail in July, La Toya said in no uncertain terms that Michael was murdered...
TMZ (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Michael Jackson Dr. Conrad Murray has absolutely no restrictions on his ability to administer Propofol -- the drug that killed Michael Jackson.We did some checking ... Dr. Murray still has full privileges to practice and operate at Doctors Hospital Tidwell in ... Permalink
CanadaPharmacyNews.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From Canada.com: As public health officials urge more rapid use of antivirals for H1N1, some experts worry the drugs could become over-prescribed for what is a relatively mild illness in most people. More than one million antiviral doses have been drawn from the federal stockpile in recent months, and the number of prescriptions filled by Canadian retail drugstores for Tamiflu and Relenza, the frontline...
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Listen to this segment | the entire program A hospital in North Carolina has reported four cases of drug-resistant H1N1 flu last week, underscoring the suspicion that the virus is now mutating. There have been more than 50 cases of the flu found to be resistant to medication like Tamiflu since [...]
X17 Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Michael Jackson's private physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, has returned to work at his Houston clinic. NBC News confirmed that the doctor, who admitted to injecting Jackson with propofol as a sleep aid, was back at work at the Armstrong...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
There is evidence that a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread from person to person in a South Wales hospital in the UK and it appears that some of them acquired the illness while in hospital. The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) announced on Friday that five patients at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff have been diagnosed with swine flu resistant to Oseltamivir...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Austin, Texas (CaymanMama.com) The dreaded swine flu is getting smarter and smarter meaning the medical community has to keep working on ways to battle the strand that has sickened thousands from coast to coast. Federal health officials confirm that four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a strand of swine flu has developed a resistance to the drug Tamiflu. This new finding makes the...
Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
In reply to Blog for November 20, 2009 [See ADDENDUM] : Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu infections in which the virus mutated to a form that’s more severe or less sensitive to drug treatment are being investigated by European and U.S. public health officials. Five patients at a hospital in Wales contracted swine flu that resisted treatment with Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news'pid=20601124&si...
hollywood news and gossips (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
A judge has unsealed a search warrant issued against Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas, where authorities believe Dr. Conrad Murray obtained Propofol. In case you don't know by now, that's the powerful anesthesia police believe killed Michael Jackson, and Murray, his personal physician, was administering it. The affidavit says at the scene of Michael Jackson's death at his L.A. home, Propofol...
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somu3g | 11/12/2009
Michael Jackson wanted to build a clone of himself. The "Thriller" star - who died of acute Propofol intoxication aged 50 in June - underwent several three dimensional scans in 1996 so a virtual reality "robotic" twin could be produced. It is thought the scans could now be used to bring the singer back in pop videos, computer games or even films.
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