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The swine flu is receding in the Bay Area and nationwide, and the worst of the pandemic may be over, but public health experts say it's too early for people to let their guard down. The number of hospitalizations and deaths from the swine flu probably peaked...
Health officials in Wichita Falls have received their shipment of H1N1 influenza vaccine for Saturday’s vaccination clinic and will provide the vaccines to people who fall into several priority groups.The Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District has received 2,280 doses of the vaccine and will provide them from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ray Clymer Exhibit Hall at the Multi ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Abortion, the issue that almost derailed House health-care legislation, emerged anew as a hurdle for the U.S. Senate measure.
An economist at the Office of Management and Budget who has battled environmentalists for years on issues such as climate change and smog has raised questions about the economic impact of a proposed new rule on air pollution, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Premiums for individuals and small businesses will soar under the Senate health reform bill, an industry-funded study predicts.
The FDA lifted a clinical hold on CytRx's molecular chaperone candidate arimoclomol.
The Erie Family Health Center, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, will not turn patients away, even if they cannot pay.
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Kalbitor (ecallantide) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat dangerous flares of sudden fluid buildup in people with hereditary angiodema (HAE), the agency said.
Despite the FDA's recent rejection of experimental drug Ampligen, Hemispherx's CEO remains optimistic.
The health insurance industry on Thursday struck back at provisions in Congress' healthcare proposals that it said would do little to curb the nation's spiraling costs or provide people more affordable coverage.
Average prices climbed 1.2 percent to 27.9 cents a liter ($1.59 a gallon) from 27.5 cents in September, Dutch farm organization LTO said in a report on its Web site today. Prices were down 22 percent from 35.6 cents a liter a year earlier.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 9 a.m. in New York.
Aetna fell $.55 or 1.8 percent, to $29.21. CIGNA fell $.55 or 1.6 percent, to $32.82.
Cephalon filed a patent infringement lawsuit against generic player Teva, which is seeking to market a generic version of Cephalon's sleep franchise product, Nuvigil.
