At the dawn of the Cold War, when President Harry S. Truman set forth a plan for national health insurance, the American Medical Association denounced it as "one of the final, irrevocable steps toward state socialism," warning that the idea "would not only... (source: Washington Post) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com [...more]
LeBron, Cavs battling flu LongIslandPress.com H1N1, also known as swine flu , is a strain of Influenza A, and though the Cavaliers have not gotten back H1N1 test results on James, Darnell Jackson or Coby ... and more [...more]
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Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments | What's fuzzy, pink, and just plain cuddly? The Influenza A H1N1 virus, of course... or at least, the stuffed toy crafted in the pathogen's likeness. You can get. [...more]
The city will offer free flu vaccines to elementary school students; close schools only as "a last resort"; and designate health clinics as " flu centers" to prevent hospital emergency rooms from being overwhelmed, as they were in the ... [...more]
Chandigarh: A meeting to review the preparedness of the hospitals to tackle the Swine Flu cases in Chandigarh was held today under the chairmanship of UT. [...more]
Voice of America Netherlands reports first death from H1N1 flu Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 17 year-old male was the first person in the Netherlands to die of H1N1 influenza, national health authority RIVM said Tuesday. The teen-ager, whose identity was not disclosed, had other serious underlying disorders, ... India Enacts New Guidelines After 1st Swine Flu Death Voice of America Guidelines revised for A(H1N1) testing Hindu Policy conflict after first swine flu death Livemint Boston Herald [...more]
Britain's National Health Service opened a swine flu pandemic hotline Thursday for people to call if they believe they are showing symptoms and need to get antiviral drugs. (source: CBC) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com [...more]
For the first time, we're publishing figures showing the swine flu rates across England and Wales We know there are a lot of swine flu cases across the country right now - but where are the concentrations? Which areas have the highest rates? Now we know. Produced by Nottingham University's Division of Primary Care the figures show the rate of infections recorded in GPs' surgeries across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You can see from this exactly how bad Tower Hamlets is - and which areas have the lowest rates. • DATA: download the full list as a spreadsheet • Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Swine flu Health Health & wellbeing guardian.co.uk [...more]
HSJ and Nursing Times’s survey this week of almost 1,500 staff reveals a national health service largely confident in its ability to cope with the swine flu pandemic, but concerned their jobs are being made more difficult by hype and hysteria. (Source: HSJ) [...more]
