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More than two million Muslims are braving the threat from swine flu to make this year's Hajj pilgrimage. Concerns about the spread of the virus swine flu are dominating the religious event. So far, the Saudi authorities have confirmed more...

Some research studies have shown that those advertisements inundating the television airwaves over the past years is costing public funded health programs like Medicaid even more. While the number of prescriptions have remained constant, the cost of these prescriptions have...

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...

This evening Dr Russel Blaylock MD on Rense.com radio talked with Jeff Rense about why people are dying from the mutated H1N1 that's attacking the lungs, on vaccines and boosting the immune system. He suspects a main reason people are...

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...

Health Ministry stated on Monday that the death toll from swine flu increased to 112 in Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported. The ministry said that the number of people who died due to pandemic flu was 112, and adding that 301...

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...

A total of 388 people have died in Ukraine of flu and acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) as of Monday evening, the ex-Soviet state's Health Ministry said. The ministry said eight people died over the past 24 hours. The flu...

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...