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 Jab effective against all flu strains 'a possibility by 2013'A "universal" flu vaccine to protect against many strains of the virus for decades may be only three years away. 2010-07-17 12:03:40  Vaccine that will protect against every type of flu• More health stories 2010-07-17 12:01:53  Swine flu drug hand-out concernsBut figures obtained under a freedom of information request show that of 16,560 people swabbed, 1,932 tested positive. 2010-07-05 12:01:04 Swine flu plan cost £1.2bn but report praises responseDealing with the swine flu outbreak that did not become the pandemic people had feared cost £1.2bn. 2010-07-02 00:03:10 Swine flu killed 457 people and cost £1.24 billionShe denied the contingency plans amounted to an overreaction and said that it was important that the relative success did not make us complacent. 2010-07-01 15:01:39 Swine flu outbreak cost UK £1.2bnBritain spent more than £1.2 billion preparing for and responding to the swine flu pandemic, an independent review found today. 2010-07-01 12:24:51 Swine flu jab contracts 'flawed'Some of the communications about the pandemic were confusing, it added. 2010-07-01 12:01:05 Mobile phone users face ‘brain tumour pandemic’The new report claims that the £15million, decade-long Interphone study was so flawed that all of the risk levels it produced must be increased significantly. 2010-06-15 08:01:42 Why does my grandfather suffer from hot flushes?Dear Readers' Clinic 2010-06-07 08:02:07 Flu experts 'link' to drug firmsIt comes as a report from the Council of Europe criticised the lack of transparency around the handling of the swine flu pandemic. 2010-06-05 12:01:08 Scientists solve mystery of resistant flu virusScientists have worked out how the seasonal flu virus has become resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu and why these drug-resistant strains have spread explosively in the past two years. 2010-06-04 00:02:35  First flushPerhaps no word in English has undergone more transformations in its lifetime than "toilet". Originally, in about 1540, it was a kind of cloth, a diminutive form of "toile", a word still used to describe a type of linen. 2010-05-18 10:03:15 tuttiflutti2010-05-16 06:01:21 Billions wasted on swine flu pandemic that never cameSchoolgirls in Cairo were given masks to wear to protect them against swine flu last October 2010-05-16 00:02:41 Fluff 'n' wipes: the real baby dietThe bizarre language that has grown up around such bogus “fat-melting” formulae is the purest nonsense. It is glaringly obvious that they lead to weight loss because they reduce your daily calorie intake. And yet they are always discussed in reverential, quasi-spiritual terms like “cleansing” or “detoxing”, as if an ordinary diet is somehow equivalent to eating poison or dirt. 2010-05-08 18:46:39 Swine flu outbreak may 'lead to cuts in services'Trusts had to pay for advertising and publicity of the campaign, vaccinating staff and equipment such as extra gloves and masks for doctors and nurses caring for the sick and vaccinating people in the priority groups. 2010-05-06 07:46:27 A little knowledge: How research scientists were caught out by swine fluHealthy dose: preparing to give a swine flu vaccination 2010-05-03 00:02:44 How much do business leaders influence you when they support a party?Today's News 2010-04-28 00:01:34 A year on, swine flu shows need for new vaccine technologyA year after the emergence of swine flu, US health authorities and laboratories say the pandemic illustrated the need for new vaccine production techniques that are faster and more reliable. 2010-04-24 13:47:30 Dozens of Australian children fall ill from flu vaccineJim Bishop, the country's chief medical officer, said that he was suspending vaccinations for under-five as a "precautionary measure". He said that children who had received the vaccine in the last 24 hours should be monitored closely by their parents. 2010-04-23 07:47:01 Swine flu will be back in the winter: scientistsDespite the feeling that most people have already had the bug, even if they didn't show symptoms, tests have shown that in some areas of the country 85 per cent have not yet contracted H1N1. 2010-04-22 07:46:38 Governments accused of panicking over swine fluA blizzard of inquiries into the handling of the swine flu pandemic, which began one year ago, have been launched amid allegations that governments around the world over-reacted to the threat. 2010-04-22 00:47:39 Jury still out on swine flu handling a year onLast April's discovery of a previously unknown flu virus in Mexico and the United States sparked fears of a deadly pandemic and set off a chain of unprecedented action by health authorities. 2010-04-21 18:48:40 Factfile on swine flu, one year laterFollowing is a factfile on H1N1 influenza, a year after the novel "swine flu" virus first came to public notice on April 24 2009: 2010-04-21 15:47:30 Girl died of swine flu after being misdiagnosedDr Anindo Banerjee, a respiratory consultant, suspected the 18-year-old was suffering from a bacteria-based pneumonia infection and put her on anti-biotics. 2010-04-20 16:46:28 Inquest to be held for swine flu case teenagerAn inquest will be held today for a teenager who died after catching swine flu. 2010-04-20 12:47:46 WHO pandemic probe focuses on media, Internet roleThe Internet had a disruptive impact on the handling of the flu pandemic by fanning speculation and rumours, officials said as a world health probe on Tuesday examined communications on swine flu. 2010-04-16 16:47:25 WHO flu experts reject charges of business influence in pandemicLeading experts involved in the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a flu pandemic on Wednesday rejected accusations of undue influence from the pharmaceutical industry. 2010-04-15 13:47:29 Flu pandemic alert not winding down: key expertThe head of a key panel advising the UN health agency on the swine flu pandemic said Wednesday there was no reason to wind down the alert before an expected second wave in the southern hemisphere. 2010-04-15 05:47:22 Swine flu: vaccine 'did not trigger potentially deadly neurological condition'The syndrome is caused by the body’s own defences attacking the nervous system. 2010-04-14 07:46:24 Swine flu causes huge rise in hospital admissionsThe number of days people spent in hospital beds with flu in 2009 was up 700 per cent on 2008, data showed today. 2010-04-10 00:47:37 Record number of patients in hospital with flu last year: official dataThe rise was steepest later in the year, with the number of bed days rising to 20,744 between October and December compared to 1,585 in the same period in 2008. 2010-04-09 13:46:37 Seasonal flu jab linked to increased H1N1 risk: studyPeople vaccinated against seasonal flu appeared to have been at increased risk of the H1N1 pandemic flu that killed thousands worldwide in 2009, Canadian researchers said Tuesday. 2010-04-08 10:47:22 NHS left with 34m swine flu jabsMinisters said the renegotiated deal was good value, but the Tories said millions of pounds had been wasted. 2010-04-07 09:46:09 Government cuts H1N1 vaccine order by two-thirdsThe Department of Health and GlaxoSmithKline yesterday agreed to cut the number of doses of swine flu vaccine the Government will buy from the group by about two-thirds, after the H1N1 virus proved to be far less devastating than first feared. 2010-04-07 01:02:36 |