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59 min ago | WNOL-TV New Orleans

Despite shortages in Canada, Afghan detainees to get swine flu vaccine

Taliban detainees in Canadian custody in Afghanistan will receive swine flu vaccinations ahead of the majority of Canadians in Canada, where there is a shortage of the vaccine - a move Canada's health minister called outrageous.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Influenza

5 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Don't underestimate sleep in battling the flu

Before you rise and shine tomorrow, you may want to hit that snooze button -- getting enough sleep could be the healthiest thing you do this flu season."It really is just as important as washing your hands and it's a major component of total body wellness," Dr.

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Related Topix: Influenza, Health, Carnegie Mellon University, Video

9 hrs ago | KXAM-TV Austin

WHO: Vaccine donation shipping thru May

The World Health Organization says it expects GlaxoSmithKline to complete shipping donations of swine flu vaccine to poor countries by May 2010.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza

14 hrs ago | PittsburghLIVE.com

Poll: Drug firms more at fault for H1N1 vaccine shortage

Sign up for PghScience, the Pittsburgh Trib's free weekly e-mail newsletter with the latest science, technology and medical news.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza

18 hrs ago | Los Angeles Times

Cedars-Sinai finds more patients exposed to excess radiation

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center officials said Monday that 260 patients had been exposed to high doses of radiation during CT brain scans during an 18-month period, up from the hospital's original estimate of 206 in September.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Mon Nov 09, 2009

San Diego News Network

Report: Reynolds eyes company that helps smokers quit

Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people quit smoking, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Health, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medication

Boston Globe

Pfizer cutting 2,000 jobs

Less than a month after buying Wyeth, drug giant Pfizer Inc. has mapped out a new structure for its research and development operations.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Pearl River, NY

ClipSyndicate

Pfizer Broke Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses: Video

Nov. 9 -- Pfizer Inc. has paid some of the largest fines in the industry after promising to stop marketing drugs for off-label uses in 2004.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Video, Business News

Uzbekistan News.net

Heavier breasts linked to increased cancer risk

Uzbekistan News.Net Monday 9th November, 2009 Women with heavier busts who have been treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of its recurrence, says a new study.

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Related Topix: Health, Breast Cancer

CW11 New York WPIX-TV

Swiss firm Sonova to buy US cochlear implant maker Advanced Bionics for $489 million

Swiss hearing aid firm Sonova Holding AG said Monday it is buying cochlear implant maker Advanced Bionics Corp., based in California, for $489 million in cash.

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Related Topix: Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, Audiology, Los Angeles County, CA

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Canada should have abandoned flu shot to focus on H1N1 vaccine: critics

OTTAWA a ' With H1N1 now accounting for virtually all the flu being diagnosed in Canada, critics say Canada was wrong not to have halted production of the regular seasonal flu shots and switched production to H1N1 vaccine sooner.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

WSAV

Ga. Effort Helps Track Flu

Officials at Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics will soon use computers in a national effort to more closely track the flu pandemic.

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Related Topix: Health, Influenza

KCRG

Effort Helps Iowans Dispose of Unwanted Medication

A program is beginning this month to help Iowans safely dispose of unwanted medication.

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Related Topix: Iowa, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry

Reuters Video

Blast hits busy Pakistan market

Nov. 8 - An anti-Taliban village mayor is among the victims of the suicide attack on the outskirts of Peshawar.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Journalism, Triad Hospitals, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Video

WTKR-TV Norfolk

NC opens Web site to help restaurants, bars make transition to smoke-free under new law

North Carolina has launched a Web site to help the state's bars, restaurants and hotels to kick the smoking habit for good.

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Related Topix: North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Smoking, Health

The White House

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Today the House reaches another major milestone in the effort to pass health insurance reform, and effort decades in the making.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Washington, DC, Healthcare Law, Law, Nursing, AARP

Sat Nov 07, 2009

WICS

Associated Press Writer

Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island -- prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza

ABC News

Teen Who Fled Chemo Now Cancer-Free

The Associated Press 5 comments Daniel Hauser and his mother Colleen are shown during an interview with the Associated Press at the... Daniel Hauser and his mother Colleen are shown during an interview with the Associated Press at the family farm in this June 2009 file photo in Sleepy Eye, Minn.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Health, Sleepy Eye, MN, Lymphoma

The Bennington Banner

Several reject vaccine despite shot shortage

Several people walked away from an H1N1 flu clinic in Manchester Thursday because they didn't want toreceivethe swine flu vaccine via nasal spray, stateHealth CommissionerDr.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza

ClipSyndicate

New mom may have died of H1N1

A new mother of twins from Springfield Township died Thursday from possible complications of H1N1, the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department said on Friday.Health department spokesman Larry Vasko told FOX Toledo News that 24-year-old Mandy Kimbler died Thursday at Toledo Hospital.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Video, Health

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