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New report explains why physicians are reluctant to share patient data
• Flu • • Public Health • Jul 07 11
Family doctors are reluctant to disclose identifiable patient information, even in the context of an influenza pandemic, mostly in an effort to protect patient…
Patients Treated with Sunitinib and Sorafenib Respond to Flu Vaccine
• Flu • Jun 29 11
Patients treated with sunitinib and sorafenib responded to the flu vaccine, which suggests the agents do not damage the immune system as much as…
Influenza vaccination during pregnancy protects newborns
• Children's Health • • Flu • • Pregnancy • Jun 23 11
Infants born to mothers who received the influenza (flu) vaccine while pregnant are nearly 50 percent less likely to be hospitalized for the flu…
Why does flu trigger asthma?
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Flu • May 30 11
When children with asthma get the flu, they often land in the hospital gasping for air. Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have found a…
Earlier flu shot better for pregnant women: study
• Flu • • Pregnancy • May 09 11
Experts recommend that pregnant women get a flu shot each year, and now a new study suggests that the earlier they do it, the…
New approach to defeating flu shows promise
• Flu • • Mortality and Morbidity • Apr 21 11
New research on mice has shown that pulmonary administration of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) significantly reduces flu symptoms and prevents death after a…
Protect Your Kids This Flu Season
• Children's Health • • Flu • Jan 17 11
Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center want to make sure children are protected from influenza this flu season. The flu is an infection…
How far do your sneeze and cough go? Experts study
• Flu • Jan 10 11
Ever wondered how far your sneeze goes? Or if you can stop germs from spreading by cupping your mouth with your hand when you…
Extreme obesity associated with higher risk of death for 2009 H1N1 patients
• Flu • • Infections • • Obesity • Jan 05 11
For those infected with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, extreme obesity was a powerful risk factor for death, according to an analysis…
Flu kills 27 in Britain, spreading in Europe
• Flu • Dec 23 10
Flu has killed 27 people in Britain since the influenza season began in October and transmission of the virus is picking up across the…
A benefit of flu: protection from asthma?
• Asthma • • Flu • Dec 13 10
The number of people with asthma has increased sharply over the past few decades. It has been suggested that this is a result of…
Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma
• Asthma • • Flu • Dec 13 10
In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children’s Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus…
Ten dead as H1N1 flu returns to Britain
• Flu • Dec 13 10
The H1N1 swine flu virus which swept the globe last year has returned to Britain with 10 people dying in the last six weeks,…
Influenza virus strains show increasing drug resistance and ability to spread
• Flu • • Public Health • Dec 08 10
Two new studies raise public health concerns about increasing antiviral resistance among certain influenza viruses, their ability to spread, and a lack of alternative…
Over-reactive immune system kills young adults during pandemic flu
• Flu • • Public Health • Dec 06 10
On November 19, Jason Martin returned to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the first time since he…
Protect Your Kids This Flu Season
• Children's Health • • Flu • Nov 17 10
Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center want to make sure children are protected from influenza this flu season. The flu is an infection…
Don’t Let Flu Season Stress You Out
• Flu • • Public Health • Oct 19 10
As the weather turns brisk and flu season begins, bad memories of last year’s H1N1pandemic may start surfacing. Luckily, microbiologist John Tudor, Ph.D., professor…
Most US doctors plan to get flu shots - survey
• Flu • • Public Health • Oct 08 10
Almost all U.S. doctors in a survey released on Thursday said they plan to get vaccinated against flu this season, a finding that heartened…
H1N1 flu virus can mutate in immunosuppressed patients-study
• Flu • • Immunology • Oct 01 10
Patients with suppressed immune systems can quickly develop H1N1 flu infections that resist all known drugs, doctors in the Netherlands reported on Wednesday.
The…
Zinc sprays dull sense of smell in some users
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Flu • Jul 21 10
Homeopathic zinc nasal sprays don’t fight colds, and they probably cause some people to lose their sense of smell, the authors of a new…
Half of swine flu deaths were in previously healthy people, research finds
• Flu • • Public Health • Jul 14 10
13 July 2010: Over half of UK swine flu hospital admissions and inpatient deaths occurred in people with no underlying health problems or obvious…
Antibody may help treat and prevent influenza outbreaks
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jul 09 10
Researchers have discovered a monoclonal antibody that is effective against “Avian” H5N1, seasonal H1N1 and the 2009 “Swine” H1N1 influenza. Scientists at Sea Lane…
Swine flu shot protects against 1918 flu: study
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jun 16 10
People who got vaccinated against the H1N1 swine flu virus may also be protected against the strain of influenza that killed 50 million to…
New Immunizations Guidelines Everyone Should Know
• Children's Health • • Flu • • Public Health • Jun 12 10
Summer is all about barbeques and lazy days at the pool. It’s also a good time to start thinking about preparing for flu season,…
Experts to review status of flu pandemic on Tuesday
• Flu • • Public Health • Jun 01 10
An expert panel that advises the World Health Organisation on pandemics will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to declare the H1N1 flu outbreak…