There are 300 intensive care beds for children There could be a shortage of intensive care beds for children this winter because of swine flu, experts say.Cambridge University researchers used official government predictions to look at how UK hospitals would cope. They said [...]
AP - 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.[Read more...]
AP - Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, according to startling federal estimates released Thursday.[Read more...]
AP - Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu — about four times the estimate they’ve been using.[Read more...]
AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island — prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.[Read more...]
X Factor contestants John and Edward Grimes Photo: BIG PICTURES The 18-year-old twins, dubbed ‘Jedward’, have built up a huge following on the back of their chaotic performances on the programme and have yet to face the judges’ vote - much to the annoyance of [...]
AP - With Dad a world leader and Nobel Prize winner, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu.[Read more...]
Tom Falk, chairman and chief executive of Kimberly Clark Tom Falk, chairman and chief executive of Kimberly Clark (KC) – one of the biggest toilet roll makers in the world – is a man truly wedded to his job. Shut up in hospital for a colonoscopy [...]
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has declared 2009 H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, the White House said on Saturday. The declaration will make it easier for U.S. medical facilities to handle a surge in flu patients by allowing the waiver of some requirements of Medicare, Medicaid and other federal [...]
AP - President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.[Read more...]
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