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Oct 7 O9 ACEP Study: Physicians Fail to Recognize Symptoms in Nearly Half of Children in Flu Pandemic Drill
Oct 7 2009 Study: Probiotics very effective in preventing colds and influenze like symptoms in pre-schoolers
William T. Basco, Jr., MD
Oct 7 09 From MDPH: Video on administration of live, attenuated nasal spray flu vaccine
The updated Handling and Patient Administration of Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) video is now available on FluMist.com. Click the following link to watch this video to learn how FluMist… Read more »
Oct 7 09 WSJ Flu Shots delayed in Canada (unpublished study showed seasonal shots could increase H1n1 risk)
TORONTO — An unpublished Canadian study that suggests getting an annual flu shot may make it easier to contract swine flu has caused most provincial governments in Canada to postpone… Read more »
Oct 7 09 Study: Partial protection against novel influenza A/H1N1 2009 from seasonal flu injection!
Preliminary evidence suggests there is some protection offered by the 2008-9 trivalent inactivated vaccine against pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 (swine flu), particularly severe forms of the disease.
October 7 09 Ch Tribune: Bagged salad safety: Rising threat of food-borne illness lurks in convenient packages of leafy greens
Bagged salad safety: Rising threat of food-borne illness lurks in convenient packages of leafy greens Leafy greens are the riskiest food regulated by the FDA, researchers for nonprofit center say… Read more »
Sept 10 09 U of Washington and SUNY study shows Swine flu (H1N1) vaccine will come too late to stem outbreak
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) — The height of this year’s fall H1N1 swine flu outbreak is expected in October, but a planned vaccine may… Read more »
Oct 6 09 Herald “Expert [member of MNA’s EP Task Force]: ‘Flu shots coming ‘too late’”
By Hillary Chabot Tuesday, October 6, 2009 – Updated 23h ago Sluggish delivery of the swine flu vaccine is putting thousands of Bay State residents at risk for the potentially… Read more »
Wash Post Oct 7 09 CBO Says Senate Health Bill Would Reduce Federal Deficit
Updated 4:49 p.m. Oct 7 2009 By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray A health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Finance Committee would cost $829 billion over the next decade… Read more »
Oct 7 2009 Biolabs: Who’s Minding the Store? Lies from BU, BMC and NIH
As most of you know, MNA has a formal position of opposition to the BSL4 lab which BU has constructed on its BMC campus in downtown Boston, and MNA has… Read more »
