Health officials

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.

Officials fear H1N1, seasonal flu will be a double whammy for schools

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...

H1N1 shot for dairy workers justified: officials

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.

Korea: B2B outbreak worries officials

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...

Health officials around the world are frustrated with the current H1N1 vaccine shortage!

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...

City health officials to confiscate 19 horses from arabbers

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.

$1M in untendered contracts tied to top health official

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.

NC health officials: 2 pregnant women die of H1N1

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.

Health officials: Don’t wait for school H1N1 clinics

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.

E-Health Network to Comat Epidemics

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.

Senior health official held in corruption case

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 ...

Light Shed On Gastroschisis Birth Defect By Local Health Investigation

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...

• New Light Shed On Gastroschisis Birth Defect - Science Daily

Swine Flu Vaccine : Official Endorses Workplace Clinics for Vaccine Distribution

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 [...]

• Official Endorses Workplace Clinics for Vaccine Distribution - New York Times

H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs

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...

• Canada: "This is not a major public health event" - H5N1
• H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs - CBC.ca

H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs

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.