Health officials to test for TB at Wheatley
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Health officials will test those people who came in close, prolonged contact with a person recently diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Health officials will test those people who came in close, prolonged contact with a person recently diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
For all the focus on the H1N1 virus in recent weeks, Sacramento area schools say they aren't seeing unusually high rates of student absences. The number of kids staying home sick, officials say, is similar to what it might be during a typical flu season. But the regular flu season bringing with it other strains of the virus is only now getting under way. The big question facing...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 57 minutes ago
Farmers Dairy did nothing wrong in immunizing employees against swine flu even though they weren't a priority group, Nova Scotia public health officials say.
H5N1 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via the Chosun Ilbo: Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak Worries Health Officials. Excerpt:The resurgence of bird flu in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province is causing concerns to health authorities as the H1N1 flu scare continues. A low pathogenic bird-flu virus was found in...
ProjectDisaster (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-10-voa33.cfm US Development of H1N1 Vaccine Hits Snag By Vidushi Sinha Washington 10 November 2009 Health officials around the world say they are frustrated by the shortage of vaccine to protect against the H1N1 flu. The United States and other wealthy countries have promised to donate 10 percent of their supply to developing countries. But due to...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Baltimore health officials plan to confiscate 19 horses from arabbers, street vendors who sell produce from horse-drawn carts in the city.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Untendered contracts totalling $1 million were awarded by the province to a consulting firm whose top executive was later hired as one of the government's top health bureaucrats, The Canadian Press has learned.
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday
(The Associated Press) Health officials in North Carolina say two pregnant women were among five people who died of pandemic H1N1 flu or similar symptoms in one week. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services would not say where the women lived. All five died during the week of Oct. 25.
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
If your child hasn’t yet received an H1N1 vaccine, don't wait for the clinics that eventually will be held at area schools, local health officials are saying. School vaccination clinics could start as soon as Thanksgiving week, but many districts may not see the vaccine until Christmas or even after the New Year.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
East African Community member states are closer to having an integrated e-health regional information network to identify, confirm and respond rapidly to outbreaks of international ramifications.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Raipur: A senior health department official and two others were arrested for their alleged involvement in a corruption case related to procurement of medical equipment here, police said on Saturday. Convener, Health, B S Sarva, a former ...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Results of an investigation conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers, public health officials and area physicians published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, indicate that Washoe County experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007 - April 2008. Subsequent review of medical records since the study's conclusion...
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The federal health official in charge of immunization and respiratory diseases said Friday that swine flu vaccine should be distributed through many outlets, including workplace clinics, to get it to high-risk people as quickly and efficiently as possible. The official, Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was responding to a furor [...]
Stageleft:. Life on the left side (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Exactly Public health officials and journalists have overstated the importance of the swine flu, a former Ontario chief medical officer of health says. Dr. Richard Schabas, chief medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties in eastern Ontario, said the H1N1 influenza outbreak needs to be put into proper perspective. The federal government, politicians...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Public health officials and journalists have overstated the importance of the swine flu, a former Ontario chief medical officer of health says.