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CNN - Wed Oct 28, 9:12 am ET
Like most people, I'd given some thought to what meat actually is, but until I became a father and faced the prospect of having to make food choices on someone else's behalf, there was no urgency to get to the bottom of things.
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ScienceBlogs - Mon Oct 26, 6:32 pm ET
The prospect of infections spreading from animals to humans has become all too real with the onset of the current swine flu pandemic, and the threat of a bird flu still looming. But infections can jump the other way too. Decades before the world's media were gripped with panic over bird flu, humans transferred a disease to chickens and it has since caused a poultry pandemic right under our noses ...
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BioresearchOnline - Thu Oct 29, 2:30 am ET
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) recently announced that this week, approximately half a million people will have received its pandemic H1N1 vaccine, Pandemrix, as part of Government initiated vaccination programmes across Europe, which commenced earlier this month.
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The Huffington Post - Wed Oct 28, 8:40 pm ET
Earlier today, the Constitution Project and the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security brought together a group of expert panelists at the...
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Business Insurance - Sun Oct 25, 2:52 pm ET
Employers' preparedness for an H1N1 flu pandemic this year varies widely. There are well-prepared firms with detailed plans in place, some of which are updated versions of plans developed in response to the avian flu scare in 2005; others, however, are just starting to think about it, observers say.
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The Huffington Post - Wed Oct 28, 6:26 pm ET
Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.
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Brainerd Dispatch - Wed Oct 28, 9:42 am ET
Crow Wing County Public Health is expecting to receive several hundred doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine Friday, a county health official said Wednesday.
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The Huffington Post - Wed Oct 28, 3:25 am ET
H1N1: Medical Honesty and Integrity -- October 27, 2009 I wrote this note in response to a post on "Peachhead2," a parents' bulletin board. "With...
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redOrbit - Tue Oct 27, 4:11 pm ET
An experimental drug cocktail that includes three prescriptions now widely available offers the best hope in developing a single agent to treat drug-resistant H1N1 swine flu, says a virology researcher in the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.In laboratory testing, the triple combination of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), amantadine (Symmetrel) and ribavirin ...
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dBusinessNews.com - Tue Oct 27, 3:13 pm ET
In laboratory testing, the triple combination of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), amantadine (Symmetrel) and ribavirin showed a significant capacity to stop flu-virus growth, says Mark Prichard, Ph.D , who serves on the board of directors of the International Society for Antiviral Research . The combo drug works better in the test tube than currently recommended single or double antiviral therapies used ...
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Newswise - Tue Oct 27, 1:40 pm ET
An experimental drug cocktail that includes three prescriptions now widely available offers the best hope in developing a single agent to treat drug-resistant H1N1 swine flu, says a UAB virology researcher. The combo of oseltamivir, amantadine and ribavirin drug works better than currently recommended single or double antiviral therapies used to treat both seasonal and swine flu strains.
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The Bakersfield Californian - Sat Oct 24, 3:13 pm ET
If you're having a hard time keeping up with the swirl of information surrounding H1N1 (swine) flu, seasonal flu, bird flu and maybe even your chimney flue, you're not alone. So we collected a batch of frequently asked questions and sought out answers.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Oct 27, 8:00 am ET
Sinovac Biotech Ltd. , a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced today that it has received its third purchase order for its H1N1 vaccine, PANFLU.1, from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for the national stockpiling plan.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Oct 25, 3:24 pm ET
U.S. regulators have approved emergency use of one experimental new antiviral drug against pandemic flu and researchers say several more in the pipeline may provide better ways to fight the virus.
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Foreign Relations - Mon Oct 26, 9:52 am ET
Worldwide, drug companies are scrambling to manufacture a vaccine for H1N1, also known as swine flu, which was declared a pandemic in June 2009. David Fedson , an expert in influenza vaccines and a former consultant to the World Health Organization, says the current distribution system is outmoded, and could slow or restrict the delivery of vaccines to some developing countries.
