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Big businesses are spending serious time and money trying to limit the swine flu pandemic's impact on operations, from bankrolling video on good hygiene to training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs.

Nationally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports H1N1 influenza activity is widespread in 43 states and has decreased slightly.

H1N1 Flu Virus George Anter, 74, stands behind some of the medications that he uses to keep his ailments in check.

Biotech firm Replikins Ltd., which has analyzed the H1N1 virus' genomic data from the 1918 pandemic through the prediction, outbreak, and progress of the current H1N1 pandemic, issued its latest biochemical analysis of the virus.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma ; Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Flu / Cold / SARS Article Date: 27 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Children with asthma are at greater risk to develop serious symptoms from H1N1 flu than from seasonal flu, according to a new study.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada have recalled 2.1 million Stork Craft cribs after four suffocation deaths.

The H1N1 vaccine has many parents worried sick about whether or not to give the vaccine to their children, and it's not just parents who are anti-vaccines that are worried, but it's also parent's who vaccinate their children and give them the seasonal flu vaccine.

America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are testing 97 medicines and vaccines to treat or prevent HIV/AIDS and related conditions, according to a new report released by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America .

An Alexandria teenager is slowly learning to walk again after he lost the ability possibly because of a swine flu shot.

Alaskans are losing the battle of the bulge. A Centers for Disease Control study says Alaska is the most overweight state this side of Texas.

A woman receives an H1N1 vaccination during a drive-through vaccination clinic earlier this month at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, Calif.

Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, new research says.

AUGUSTA – Two more deaths have been reported due to H1N1 influenza in Maine, bringing the total to nine since August, according to the Maine CDC in the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Disease Control issued a warning Wednesday that catching the H1N1 virus can put patients at risk, not only of developing complications, but serious bacterial pneumonia.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight , according to a Loyola University Health System study.

The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain and the United States that the H1N1 flu may have developed resistance to Tamiflu in people with severely suppressed immune systems, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Infant Deaths Spur Recall of 2.1 Million Stork Craft Cribs Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : In an effort to remedy a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine in nursing homes, U.S. health officials are trying to shift vaccine supplies away from chain pharmacies and supermarkets.

Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007.

In adolescent girls, the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections is substantial, and human papillomavirus is the most common infection, according to a study published online Nov.

Fewer Minnesota residents are being sickened with the H1N1 flu as the supply of vaccine catches up with demand, but people should take precautions over Thanksgiving, a health official said Tuesday.