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Vaccines are slow and unreliable just when you need them, according to the November 22, 2009 Washington Post news article published online at the Google news site. The article, " Vaccine system remains antiquated ," by Rob Stein , reported...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) is recalling over 2 million cribs following the reports of 4 infant suffocations. The recall is the biggest in U.S. history. The cribs are made by Stork Craft Manufacturing but many of...

In the first such local case, a one-year-old Hong Kong boy with human swine flu (H1N1) was sickened by the virus that had the same mutation detected recently in Norway. The Norwegian virus mutation has raised concerns because it attacks...

Hong Kong's Department of Health announced Monday that it had found the same mutation in a H1N1 flu virus sample as the one detected in Norway recently. The department said that it had examined the genetic sequence of H1N1 flu...

Medical experts say tobacco-related illnesses are becoming a serious health issue in Africa as a new report warns tobacco use may double in some parts of the continent during the next 12 years. The report, from the Global Smokefree Partnership,...

Thousands more Minnesota kids were immunized against the H1N1 flu Saturday, a process that apparently went smoothly across the Twin Cities. Today, Fairview Clinics will offer walk-in vaccination at its locations in Minneapolis, Bloomington, Fridley, Eagan and Wyoming, and other...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking into reports in Britain of the likely spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the UN agency said on Tuesday. Britain's Health Protection Agency said five cass have been confirmed in Wales...

Up to 47 people received in Needham, including 15 firefighters, received a second dose of the seasonal flu shot instead of the H1N1 vaccine last week due to an apparent label mix-up, town administrators learned on Nov. 23. WCVB Channel...

For 23 years its doctors have believed in the coma. But, tells the patient belgian, it was in fact awake, but unable to communicate because imprisoned in a body totally paralyzed. Nurses move a sick bedridden in a hospital in...