http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Health officials are stressing that it is vital for pregnant women and new parents to get the swine flu vaccine to protect themselves and their children. http://www.physorg.com/news170613875.html Medicine & Health Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:00:03 EST news170613875 (AP) -- About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, researchers found even during the height of global swine flu panic in May, less than half were willing to get vaccinated. http://www.physorg.com/news170449722.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:30:01 EST news170449722 (AP) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a massive school closing wouldn't stop the spread of the swine flu virus, saying vaccinations must be the defense against a menace that one report said could infect up to half of the population. http://www.physorg.com/news170405403.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:50:31 EST news170405403 (AP) -- It will likely be Thanksgiving before a significant number of Americans who get the swine flu vaccine are protected, health officials said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news170360338.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:50:03 EST news170360338 (AP) -- The government should speed availability of at least a little swine flu vaccine next month instead of in October, the president's scientific advisers recommended Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news170349981.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:31:57 EST news170349981 (AP) -- U.S. health officials say there have been no problems so far in tests of the new swine flu vaccine. http://www.physorg.com/news170081725.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:10:01 EST news170081725 (AP) -- Government officials are calling on U.S. businesses to help manage swine flu this fall by getting vaccines to vulnerable workers and encouraging employees with symptoms to stay home. http://www.physorg.com/news169903596.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:40:01 EST news169903596 Good news for people fearful of needles and squeamish of shots: Scientists at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society report the design of a painless patch that may someday render hypodermic needles - as well as annual flu shots - a thing of the past. Lined with tiny "microneedles," these patches could make treatment of diabetes and a wide range of other diseases safer, more effective and less painful. Used as tiny hypodermic needles, they could improve treatment of macular degeneration and other diseases of the eye. http://www.physorg.com/news169890208.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:44:26 EST news169890208 (AP) -- Faced with an unexpected delay, health officials are trying to counter new problems with swine flu vaccine production including a logjam at factories that put the precious liquid into syringes. http://www.physorg.com/news169813406.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:40:02 EST news169813406 (AP) -- The U.S. won't have nearly as much swine flu vaccine ready by mid-October as long predicted - 45 million doses instead of the anticipated 120 million, a federal official said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news169791704.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:40:01 EST news169791704 (AP) -- Since swine flu first emerged in April, it has sparked panic, vaccine production and now, a video game. http://www.physorg.com/news169724177.html Technology Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:36:41 EST news169724177 (AP) -- Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says it has started testing its swine flu vaccine in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news169470608.html Medicine & Health Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:10:43 EST news169470608 Britain's first swine flu vaccine trials, led by the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, are taking place at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. http://www.physorg.com/news169209153.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:33:17 EST news169209153 (AP) -- French drugmaker Sanofi Pasteur says it has started human trials of its swine flu vaccine in about 2,000 people in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news168849919.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:45:46 EST news168849919 (AP) -- Get ready to roll up your sleeve three times for flu shots this fall. That's right, three times. This year's flu season is shaping up to be a very different one. Most people will need one shot for the regular seasonal flu and probably two others to protect against the new swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news168796642.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:57:44 EST news168796642 (AP) -- Swine flu vaccine manufacturers are on track to start delivering the first batches of it in September, the World Health Organization said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news168777519.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:39:11 EST news168777519 (AP) -- The swine flu pandemic is spurring makers of seasonal flu vaccines to ship them to the U.S. market well ahead of schedule, and supplies are tightening as distributors and others snap up vaccine vials. http://www.physorg.com/news168765751.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:40:06 EST news168765751 (AP) -- Swiss drugmaker Novartis has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people in the company's first human tests, a spokesman said Wednesday. The vaccine is being tested in a yearlong trial of 6,000 people of all ages in Britain, Germany and the United States, Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff told The Associated Press, adding that the vaccine will likely be on the market before the trial finishes. http://www.physorg.com/news168682913.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:22:28 EST news168682913 (AP) -- Pregnant women, health care workers and children six months and older should be placed at the front of the line for swine flu vaccinations this fall, a government panel recommended Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news168181411.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:04:28 EST news168181411 Patients with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased risk of infection, due to both disturbances in their immune responses and treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. Because morbidity and mortality related to influenza are increased in immunocompromised patients, it is recommended that patients with SLE get annual flu shots, which are safe and do not increase disease activity. http://www.physorg.com/news168152658.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:20:01 EST news168152658 (AP) -- In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a new flu vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety issues and proper vaccine doses. http://www.physorg.com/news167826081.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:40:01 EST news167826081 (AP) -- The U.S. expects to have 160 million doses of swine flu vaccine available sometime in October, even though manufacturers worldwide are having serious trouble brewing the shots, federal health officials said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news167580340.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:06:19 EST news167580340 (AP) -- Federal health officials say the new swine flu isn't yet mutating to become more dangerous, but they're closely tracking that as the virus continues to circle the globe. http://www.physorg.com/news167564852.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:04 EST news167564852 (AP) -- Attention is shifting to the world's five leading flu vaccine makers: How fast are they really producing swine flu vaccine, and just how do they plan to test that it works? http://www.physorg.com/news167547051.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:51:19 EST news167547051 (AP) -- The race is on: The government and vaccine makers are seeking thousands of volunteers, from babies to the elderly, to roll up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots - to test whether a new vaccine really will protect against this novel virus before its expected rebound in the fall. http://www.physorg.com/news167494120.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:20:02 EST news167494120 (AP) -- The world's first human trials of a swine flu vaccine have begun in Australia, drug company officials said Wednesday, with the aim of controlling the virus that has so far killed more than 700 worldwide. http://www.physorg.com/news167402541.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:38:33 EST news167402541 (AP) -- An ugly scramble is brewing over the swine flu vaccine - and when it becomes available, Britain, the United States and other nations could find that the contracts they signed with pharmaceutical companies are easily broken. http://www.physorg.com/news166975121.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:10:03 EST news166975121 The swine flu pandemic has grown "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official said Monday, as seven new deaths were reported and a study raised fresh concerns. http://www.physorg.com/news166701337.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:55:49 EST news166701337 Britain could have more than 100,000 cases of swine flu a day by the end of August, the government said Thursday, while stressing there was no need for alarm. http://www.physorg.com/news165756857.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:34:46 EST news165756857 (AP) -- As many as 1 million Americans now have swine flu, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban areas are infected. The estimate voiced by a government flu scientist Thursday was no surprise to the experts who have been closely watching the virus. http://www.physorg.com/news165170823.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:10:01 EST news165170823