A senior administration official says diplomatic tour of Indonesia, Guam and Australia rescheduled; big push on to pass health reform (source: The Globe and Mail) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com [...more]
Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, is calling on GPs to promote vaccination against the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza to their patients before the flu season begins in Australia . Professor Bishop has enlisted the support of his GP Roundtable, which includes representatives of the AMA, RACGP and the GP Network and he is writing to all GPs in Australia to ask them to proactively promote vaccination for all people aged 6 months and above in an effort to stop the spread of swine flu which is expected to be the dominant influenza strain in 2010... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
Dear Members I would like to know one thing from those of you who are in Australia at the moment. Have you guys taken the Swine flu vaccination or not [...more]
The rapid and widespread entry of the pandemic H1N1 infection that led to a large number of infected cases in Australia suggested a public health management failure in containing the pandemic when it broke out in April 2009. According to a paper in Respirology published by Wiley-Blackwell, despite the well-intentioned and well-funded public health effort against the pandemic, the primary failure of the prepared public health response was the unanticipated clinical presentation and the high infectivity of virus... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
IT may not be flu season in Australia but swine flu is supposed to be a year-round threat. [...more]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) At least 13 more people have died due to swine flu in India taking the toll due to the pandemic virus to 967, health authorities said Friday. Of the 13 deaths, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand reported three deaths ... [...more]
One of the best read articles in 2009 on Lew Rockwell was one by Bill Sardi on eighteen reasons you shouldn´t take the swine flu vaccine. Here´s an excerpt, [...more]
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CSL Limited, Australia’s leading biopharmaceutical company, announced the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published data from a clinical trial conducted in Australia to study CSL’s pandemic H1N1 2009 ‘swine’ flu vaccine. Results of the trial demonstrate a robust immune response after a single dose in children as young as 6 months of age, which is further enhanced by the administration of a second dose given thr [...more]
Sydney - If only worries about climate change were as overblown as the alarm over swine flu. The pandemic H1N1 virus has proved to be not as serious as predicted, Jim Bishop, Australia's chief medical officer, admits. The fact is that everyone ... w... (source: Earth Times) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com [...more]
Berlin - Drinking plenty of fluids and eating little meat reduces the chance of developing kidney stones, according to the German Internists Association (BDI). The BDI said that drinking between one-and-a-half and two litres of fluids daily kept the ... (source: Earth Times) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com [...more]
