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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Video Digest: Hospitals change visit policies, CDC update, H1N1 death in San Diego, Worst case economic impacts Comments Off on Video Digest: Hospitals change visit policies, CDC update, H1N1 death in San Diego, Worst case economic impacts
The H1N1 patient surge; experiences in four countries reviewed 1
A recent commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association compares past clinical experience with H1N1 across four countries. Mexico, Canada, Australia and New Zealand involving intensive care units. Despite differences in normal care and mortality across the countries (which ranged from 14 to 41 percent), the studies signal what hospitals may confront in […]
Categories: Care and Treatment,International News
Tagged: Care and Treatment, flu, h1n1, influenza, International News, swine flu
H1N1 vaccine side effects in focus Comments Off on H1N1 vaccine side effects in focus
Recent findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine provide some insights into H1N1 vaccine side effects. In clinical trials involving 120 persons involving a single dose of H1N1, there were no deaths, no serious adverse events or other events that would have triggered the tests to end. The most common reactions reported by […]
Categories: Care and Treatment,US News,Vaccine Updates
Tagged: Care and Treatment, flu, h1n1, influenza, swine flu, US News, Vaccine Updates
Untangling H1N1 vaccine safety perceptions and rumors 2
News accounts have reported lingering public suspicion about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine. Much of this coverage traces to a widely reported Associated Press poll conducted Oct. 1-5, that found 72 percent of those surveyed are worried about side effects. More than half say that those concerns wouldn’t stop them from getting the vaccine […]
Categories: Care and Treatment,US News,Vaccine Updates
Tagged: Care and Treatment, flu, h1n1, influenza, swine flu, US News, Vaccine Updates
Video Digest: H1N1 vaccine, H1N1 reality check, CDC update, In Memorium Comments Off on Video Digest: H1N1 vaccine, H1N1 reality check, CDC update, In Memorium
Categories: US News,Vaccine Updates,Video and Media
Tagged: flu, h1n1, influenza, swine flu, US News, Vaccine Updates, Video and Media
H1N1 flu at epidemic threshold in U.S. Comments Off on H1N1 flu at epidemic threshold in U.S.
09 Oct 2009 Reuters reports, according to the Center for Disease Control, pandemic H1N1 flu is spreading in several states at a time when there is normally little to no influenza. CDC’s weekly FluView report revealed that 6.5 percent of all deaths in the last week of September were due to pneumonia and influenza. This […]
Categories: US News
Intensive care units down under hit by H1N1 pandemic flu Comments Off on Intensive care units down under hit by H1N1 pandemic flu
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and subsequently
reported in Medpage found that Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in New Zealand
and Australia admitted significantly more patients during their winter flu
season.
Categories: International News
Tagged: flu, h1n1, influenza, International News, swine flu
Dutch researchers find mutation in swine flu virus Comments Off on Dutch researchers find mutation in swine flu virus
Two Dutch scientists reported in ProMed, that two patients diagnosed with H1N1 A 2009 virus had a mutation in the PB2 protein. This mutation had been associated with increased virulence in other influenza A strains.
Categories: International News
Tagged: flu, h1n1, influenza, International News, swine flu
Situation Brief Comments Off on Situation Brief
Categories: International News,US News
Tagged: flu, h1n1, influenza, International News, swine flu, US News
