CDC: 4 people in NC test positive for Tamiflu-resistant swine flu, first such US cluster Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital ...
AP IMPACT: US distribution of swine flu vaccine is uneven, confusing; complaints abound When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early ...
Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent. A little under 21 percent of U.S. adults said they smoked, according to a 2008 ...
Sexually transmitted diseases still rising; chlamydia hits a new record Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday. Last year there were 1.2 million new cases of chlamydia, a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American squeamishness about talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported Monday. Latest statistics on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis show the three highly treatable infections continue to ...
More than 6,250 people have died in the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, as the global death rate appeared to slow. The number of deaths from the A(H1N1) pandemic in the week to November 8 grew by about ...
CDC estimates swine flu toll at 22 million sickened, nearly 4,000 killed since April Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates. But that doesn't mean swine flu suddenly has worsened. ...
Swine flu is thought to have killed nearly 4,000 people in the United States, including more than 500 children, health officials said after a new counting method yielded an estimate six times higher than the last. The new system is based on ...
Progress in the effort to reduce smoking, seen as the leading cause of preventable death, has stalled since 2005 despite aggressive and expensive campaigns, a government report said Thursday. In 2008, 20.6 percent of American adults smoked, amounting to 46 million people, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swine flu is causing the worst flu season in the United States since 1997, when current measurements started, and has killed an estimated 3,900 people from April to October, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday. Monitoring from 29 of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to help smokers kick the habit have stalled in the United States, with hardly any recent change in smoking rates, federal researchers reported on Thursday. Just over 20 percent of the adult population smoked in 2008, according to ...
Along with scarce vaccine and shrinking stocks of antivirals, the United States faces another enemy in the fight against swine flu: workers who go to work when they're ill because they don't get paid sick leave. The A(H1N1) virus "is causing an ...
