World Health News

Travelers weary from Thanksgiving sojourns can at least multi-task on the return trip through Chicago airports this weekend. O'Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway Airport plan to expand their seasonal flu vaccine services to include the hard-to-find H1N1 vaccine by...

Canadian Paediatric Society and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. "It is causing significant illness in children all across Canada." Vaudry, a mother of four, said vaccination is the best way to protect children against H1N1. "If I...

Senior White House officials on Wednesday brushed aside criticism that Democrats aren't tackling cost containment in their health-care reform bills, although they acknowledged room for improvement as the bills move forward. White House budget director Peter Orszag told reporters via...

State health officials confirmed Wednesday that the peak of H1N1 activity has passed and also unveiled a strategy to target college-age Hoosiers for the vaccine in an effort to avoid a third wave of the flu. State Health Commissioner Judy...

Serious cases of respiratory disease have accompanied the H1N1 flu virus in populations not normally vulnerable to such a complication, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. In Denver, one of 10 metropolitan areas under investigation by the...

Philippines�The Philippine government will receive a total of nine million doses of vaccines against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the coming months. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and WHO Director General Margaret Chan...

But according to Dr. Gerszten's attorney, those amounts are only advisory...Schwab to determine what amount the defendant will have to pay...She filed a federal lawsuit in September 2008, alleging that she had been discriminated against because of her gender and...

The 46-year-old Rom Houben was injured in a car crash in 1983 when he was 20 and doctors took him to be in coma, although they now agree that he was conscious throughout. However, it was not until three years...

The vaccine is offered free of charge, regardless of health plan affiliation. Vaccinations begin at 8 a.m. and continue until 2 p.m., or until the supply of approximately 1,500 doses is exhausted. Both injections and the nasal flu mist vaccine...

A large analysis of the genes of 8,200 ethnic Chinese has revealed subtle genetic differences between inhabitants in northern China and southern China, and even between different Chinese dialect groups. Published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, the study...