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
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- October 14, 2009 – 6:31 pm
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- By The Editor
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
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- October 11, 2009 – 11:45 pm
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- By The Editor
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
- Published:
- October 11, 2009 – 9:50 am
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- By The Editor
- Published:
- October 9, 2009 – 10:30 pm
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- By The Editor
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
Tagged: flu, h1n1, influenza, swine flu, US News
- Published:
- October 9, 2009 – 6:30 pm
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- By The Editor
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
- Published:
- October 9, 2009 – 4:52 pm
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- By The Editor
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
- Published:
- October 9, 2009 – 12:01 am
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- By The Editor
- Published:
- October 7, 2009 – 6:02 pm
- Author:
- By The Editor
