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Can a mop fight swine flu? Docs say probably not
May 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In scores of schools across the United States, the mop has been the weapon of choice in the fight against swine flu. Schools from New York to California have spent days disinfecting desks and tables after cases of ...
Experts baffled by deadly outbreak of meningitis
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Local, state and national health experts are baffled as to how a rare and deadly strain of meningitis killed four people and infected eight others in South Florida since December, an unprecedented outbreak in the United States.
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First-of-Kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used to Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts Performance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What does it mean when expert psychiatric witnesses in a court case reach opposing conclusions on the same sets of evidence? A new study out of the University of Cincinnati College of Law suggests via mathematical ...
China investigates 2 deaths after flu vaccinations
Nov 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated.
Swine flu vaccine effective despite mutations: experts
Nov 21, 2009 |
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Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.
Health experts: Kids should get seasonal flu shot
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year - a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.
CDC Confirms Four New Cases of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant H1N1
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Tests performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of infectious disease experts at Duke University Medical Center have confirmed this week that isolates from four patients with H1N1 influenza ...
Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...
Birth control could help combat climate change
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.
UN: $39 billion needed for pneumonia
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years.
UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.
Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
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