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- 1 First batches of swine flu vaccine are here
- MSNBCOctober 5, 2009"After much ballyhoo, vaccinations against the swine flu become available this week. But don't try to make that appointment just yet.This week's initial shipments to states are so small that, with a few...
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- October 5, 2009
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- 2 Pregnancy Is No Time to Refuse a Flu Shot
- The New York TimesSeptember 29, 2009"Pregnant women are deluged with advice about things to avoid: caffeine, paint, soft cheese, sushi. Even when evidence of possible harm is weak or purely theoretical, the overriding caveat is,...
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- September 29, 2009
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- 3 Second wave of swine flu pandemic begins to hit US
- The Boston Globe September 28, 2009 "After months of warnings and frantic preparations, the second wave of the swine flu pandemic is starting to be felt around the country. Doctors, health clinics, hospitals, and schools...
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- September 28, 2009
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- 4 Drugmaker Reports Shortage of Kids' Tamiflu
- The Associated Press (via Time)September 24, 2009"The maker of Tamiflu on Wednesday said there's a shortage of the children's version of the drug — the first-line treatment for swine flu and seasonal flu.Switzerland-based Roche Holdings...
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- September 24, 2009
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- 5 One Shot of Vaccine Can Protect Most Children
- The New York TimesSeptember 22, 2009"A single shot of swine flu vaccine appears to protect most children and teenagers nearly as well as it protects adults, federal health officials said Monday. Young children who have...
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- September 22, 2009
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- 6 Test Aims to Detect Flu Before Symptoms
- MSNBCSeptember 22, 2009"WASHINGTON - Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine — with a mere drop of blood — who will get influenza before the sniffling and fever set in. And they are...
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- September 22, 2009
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- 7 Early Data Show H1N1 Vaccine Is Highly Effective
- TimeSeptember 11, 2009"It was back-to-school time for much of the U.S. this week, as millions of students bustled into classrooms to start the new year. But compared with school years past, this academic season has...
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- September 11, 2009
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- 8 Schools say no knee-jerk flu closures this fall
- Los Angeles TimesAugust 28, 2009"Schools have been busy preparing for possible outbreaks of the H1N1 flu, but any kids expecting the principal to give everyone a week off at the slightest hint of illness among...
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- August 28, 2009
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- 9 Agency Urges Caution on Estimates of Swine Flu
- The New York TimesAugust 26, 2009"Up to 90,000 deaths from swine flu in the United States, mostly among children and young people? Up to 1.8 million people hospitalized, with 50 percent to 100 percent of...
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- August 26, 2009
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- 10 Swine Flu Could Infect Half of U.S.
- The Washington PostAugust 25, 2009"Swine flu could infect half the U.S. population this fall and winter, hospitalizing up to 1.8 million people and causing as many as 90,000 deaths -- more than double the number...
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- August 25, 2009
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- 11 Who Should Get the H1N1 Vaccine First?
- TimeJuly 30, 2009 "World health officials are carefully watching the H1N1/09 swine flu virus as it makes it way through the Southern Hemisphere, which is currently in the thick of its flu season. They are...
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- July 30, 2009
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- 12 Pregnant Women With Swine Flu More Likely to Be Hospitalized
- The Chicago TribuneJuly 29, 2009 "Pregnant women who get swine flu are at least four times as likely to be hospitalized as other people with the virus, a new study says. While experts don't know...
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- July 29, 2009
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- 13 Pregnant Women May Be Among First To Get Swine Flu Shots
- The Chicago TribuneJuly 28, 2009 "Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new swine flu shot this fall. Pregnant...
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- July 28, 2009
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- 14 Swine Flu May Cause Seizures in Children
- The New York TimesJuly 24, 2009 "The nation's top public health officials are alerting doctors that swine flu may cause seizures, after four children were hospitalized in Texas for neurological complications. All four children fully...
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- July 24, 2009
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- 15 Flu Changes Summer Camp Life
- The New York TimesJuly 23, 2009 "Parents who arrived for visiting day on Sunday at Camp Matoaka in Smithfield, Me., got a tiny bottle of Purell, and at lunch, the serving staff wore masks and...
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- July 23, 2009
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- 16 Trying to Stop Swine Flu at Summer Camp
- SlateJuly 13, 2009 "For three summers, my 12-year-old son, Joshua, has attended Camp Modin, a beautiful camp in rural Maine. This year, when we dropped him off at the northbound bus, something was different: The...
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- July 13, 2009
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- 17 Vaccinating Kids Might Help To Control Swine Flu
- Reuters June 18, 2009 "Targeting children for vaccination may be the best way of using limited supplies of vaccine to control the current H1N1 flu pandemic, British researchers said on Thursday. Drugmakers are racing to...
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- June 18, 2009
Brain + Body
- 18 How To Prevent A Cold
- Pediatricians recommend three simple strategies on how to prevent a cold this winter.
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- January 2, 2008
Brain + Body
- 19 Common Cold
- When your kid has the symptoms of a common cold, here's how to make the call between harmless and contagious.
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