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(AP) -- Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday - the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news178645622.html Medicine & Health Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:48:21 EST news178645622 As flu season draws nearer along with the potential for resurgence in H1N1, leading infectious diseases doctors, hospital epidemiologists, and infection preventionists urge officials to base recommendations for the public and healthcare workers on scientific knowledge and frontline experience gained from the outbreak this summer. http://www.physorg.com/news169300539.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:10:04 EST news169300539 (AP) -- Mexico City lowered its swine flu alert level from yellow to green on Thursday, and the mayor said "we can relax" now that there have been no new infections for a week. http://www.physorg.com/news162183906.html Medicine & Health Fri, 22 May 2009 04:05:26 EST news162183906 (AP) -- Millions of children, many wearing surgical masks, returned to scrubbed and disinfected classrooms Monday after a nationwide shutdown to curb the spread of swine flu in Mexico. The worldwide toll of deaths linked to the illness rose to 61. http://www.physorg.com/news161258262.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 10:58:04 EST news161258262 (AP) -- Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu? The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it, calling complacency the thing that keeps them up at night. http://www.physorg.com/news160932254.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 16:24:43 EST news160932254 The new influenza A (H1N1), known as the swine flu, demonstrates the power of people's perceptions of risk. Sales of face masks are breaking all records not only in Mexico but also in Sweden. Hotel guests are being isolated at a hotel in Hong Kong, and people with the sniffles are being isolated in airports around the world. But before the outbreak of the flu, this was a risk that extremely few Swedes perceived as a serious threat to themselves. http://www.physorg.com/news160806348.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 05:26:14 EST news160806348 (AP) -- Traffic is picking up again, cafes are reopening and cleanup crews are getting universities ready to resume classes. Mexico City has some of its customary bustle back, and the president promises life is returning to normal after a five-day shutdown to contain the spread of swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news160723100.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 06:18:47 EST news160723100 (AP) -- City officials announced a rising toll of the largest cluster of swine flu cases in the nation Monday as anxious New Yorkers rushed to drug stores to buy face masks in response to a global health scare. http://www.physorg.com/news160127133.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:10:14 EST news160127133 Asian health officials went on alert Sunday as a flu strain that has killed dozens of people in Mexico appeared to have spread to New Zealand, underscoring warnings of a potential pandemic. http://www.physorg.com/news159946928.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:42:35 EST news159946928 (AP) -- The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. And while bars and nightclubs filled up as usual, even some teenagers were dancing with surgical masks on. http://www.physorg.com/news159860356.html Medicine & Health Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:40:27 EST news159860356 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light. http://www.physorg.com/news158582784.html Nanotechnology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:46:56 EST news158582784 (PhysOrg.com) -- "What you want these days is to have precise control of nanostructures. Using masks and optical techniques, it is possible to control how nanostructures grow for use in practical applications," David Field tells PhysOrg.com. "This is already done in silicon devices. However, with softer materials it is a bit more difficult. Our work could make it possible for a new method of patterning that would work with a number of materials." http://www.physorg.com/news155208596.html Physics Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:30:48 EST news155208596 Donning a face mask is an easy way to boost protection from severe respiratory illnesses such as influenza and SARS, new research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found, but convincing a reluctant public and health workers is proving a struggle. http://www.physorg.com/news152193746.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:05:29 EST news152193746