Topic: Medical Treatments and Procedures
LONDON (Reuters) - Pregnant women in Australia and New Zealand who had pandemic H1N1 flu were 13 times more likely to become critically ill and be admitted to hospital, researchers said on Friday. The study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), analyzed data from the middle of the southern hemisphere's 2009 winter and found that 11 percent of mothers ...
Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of ...
Health officials faced with meager supplies of swine flu vaccine last fall sent doses to some surprising places: cruise ship lines, Wall Street firms and the Johnson Space Center. There is no complete database of where every dose went. But partial records show that financial institutions and other surprising recipients sometimes got doses before county health departments and doctor's ...
