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ASCO Releases Updated Treatment Guidelines For Patients With Stage 4 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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New recommendations on the use of chemotherapy to treat patients with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were issued today by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The evidence-based clinical practice guideline indicates a patient's physical age should not determine the cancer treatment he/she is given.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lung Cancer Source Type: news
Study Recommends That Young Athletes Have Dual Screening Tests For Heart DefectsEmail this article to a colleague.
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To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according to new research from heart experts at Johns Hopkins.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Survey Shows That Americans Lack Significant Knowledge Of Age-Related Vision ProblemsEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's a fact of life that eyes change with age, and baby boomers - Americans born between 1946 and 1964 - are at the stage when many are affected by vision problems.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / Blindness Source Type: news
Effects Of Vitamin D Deficiency Amplified By Shortage Of EstrogenEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone. In a national study in 1010 men, to be presented Nov.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Postmortem Genetic Tests After Sudden Death May Provide Less Expensive Way To Identify Risk To Surviving RelativesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Targeted postmortem testing to identify genetic mutations associated with sudden unexplained death (SUD) is an effective and less expensive way to determine risk to relatives than comprehensive cardiac testing of first degree relatives, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Study: Uninsured More Likely To Die In EREmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers don't know if it's slower treatment, different care or inadequate hospitals, but they say uninsured are 80 percent more likely to die after a traumatic injury.
Source: WDSU.com - Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WDSU.com Source Type: news
Africa heading for 'smoking epidemic'Email this article to a colleague.
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As practitioners from around the world gather for an international cancer conference in Tanzania, the head of an African cancer organisation says that the continent is heading for a smoking pandemic.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Africa Source Type: news
Africa heads for smoking epidemicEmail this article to a colleague.
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As practitioners from around the world gather for an international cancer conference in Tanzania, the head of an African cancer organisation says that the continent is heading for a smoking pandemic.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Africa Source Type: news
Tobacco Execs Quickly Find Big Tax LoopholeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tobacco companies quickly adapted to new laws -- with a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions dollars in taxes each year.
Source: WDSU.com - Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WDSU.com Source Type: news
ACOG Statement On Revised US Preventive Services Task Force RecommendationsOn Breast Cancer ScreeningEmail this article to a colleague.
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In response to today's US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) statement that recommends against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and recommends screening only once every two years for women ages 50 to 74, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) maintain
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Women's Health / Gynecology Source Type: news
Medical Groups Applaud CMS Adoption Of Long-Awaited Practice Expense UpdateEmail this article to a colleague.
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A coalition of medical specialties today congratulated the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for its careful and reasoned implementation of up-to-date practice expense rates into its physician payments.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / Blindness Source Type: news
Future Physicians Develop Conflict Of Interest Curriculum For Nation's Academic Medical CentersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical and device industries has been under recent scrutiny and several groups, including the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), have examined how medical education should prepare future physicians for the practical and ethical challenges that accompany these interactions.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pharmacy / Pharmacist Source Type: news
Early Cooling In Cardiac Arrest May Improve SurvivalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Rapidly cooling a person in cardiac arrest may improve their chance of survival without brain damage, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009. "We now have a method that is safe and can be started within minutes of cardiac arrest to minimize damage during this very critical period," said Maaret Castrén, M.D.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Comparing Two Surgical Strategies For Infant Heart DefectEmail this article to a colleague.
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Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure - yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Analysis Shows Bystanders Can Save More Lives When Doing Chest Compressions Only Instead Of Mouth-To-mouth CPREmail this article to a colleague.
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The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than when bystanders performed standard CPR.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Post-Discharge, Elevated Biomarkers Lead To Diminished Quality Of Life In Heart Attack PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many heart attack patients have high levels of cardiac biomarkers in the blood for several months after leaving the hospital, with more shortness of breath and chest pain, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. The study examined a subset of patients in a 4,500-patient heart attack registry from 24 24 U.S.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Routine Mammograms Should Start At 50 Not 40 Says US Expert PanelEmail this article to a colleague.
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An independent medical expert panel that advises the US federal government on preventive and primary healthcare recommends against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years and suggests instead that the decision to start regular screening before the age of 50 should be an individual one.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Preventive Medicine Source Type: news
The GFC Affects Your Health, Not Just Your PocketEmail this article to a colleague.
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One in four Australian adults has taken an action that puts their health at risk as a result of the global financial crisis (GFC), according to a new MBF Healthwatch poll. The results show that lack of job security was particularly hard on families, with almost one in five parents turning up to work ill and close to one in 10 parents sending sick children to school.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news
Biomedical Informatics Symposium Opens With Address From Calif. Health Care LeaderEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) opened its Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics with more than 2,000 members and registrants gathered at the Hilton San Francisco to exchange new information, best practices, and cutting-edge thinking on an array of topics in this burgeoning health care field. Opening the symposium was Mark D.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Scientific Meeting On Latest Breakthroughs And Techniques For Improving Success Rate Of Chronic Total OcclusionEmail this article to a colleague.
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WHAT: The Seventh International Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit is a two-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize success in chronic total coronary occlusions.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Powerful World Alliance Of Health Researchers Announces Landmark Pact On Priorities In Fight Against Humanity's Most Fatal DiseasesEmail this article to a colleague.
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An alliance of institutions collectively managing an estimated 80 percent of all public health research funding worldwide announced their first targets for concerted action in the fight against "chronic non-communicable diseases" (CNCDs).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Preventive Medicine Source Type: news
Vaccine Against Chlamydia Not Far AwayEmail this article to a colleague.
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"Now that we know how the body defends itself against the Chlamydia bacteria, we can develop a vaccine that optimises that defence. We have a basic understanding of how the vaccine could work, but some work remains to be done. We believe that it will take a few years before the vaccine becomes a reality," says researcher Ellen Marks, the author of the thesis.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sexual Health / STDs Source Type: news
Disease-matching Software Could Save ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague.
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By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward. Software tools are being developed that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe to find children with closely matched conditions.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Slowing Evolution To Stop Drug ResistanceEmail this article to a colleague.
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The resistance of infectious organisms to antibiotics is particularly serious in drugs against fungi. Fungal cells are similar to human cells, which means that it is difficult to develop effective drugs that can destroy them without also damaging human cells, i.e. without causing side effects. We must therefore safeguard the effectiveness of the few antifungal drugs that are available today.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
The Indefinite Self Renewal Of Specialized Cells Without The Need For Stem Cell IntermediatesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Is the indefinite expansion of adult cells possible without recourse to stem cell intermediates? The team led by Michael Sieweke at the Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy (Université Aix-Marseille 2 / CNRS / INSERM) has proved that this is the case by achieving the ex vivo regeneration for several months of macrophages, specialized cells in the immune system.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: news
Are Sterile Mosquitoes The Answer To Malaria Elimination?Email this article to a colleague.
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The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), the release of sexually sterile male insects to wipe out a pest population, is one suggested solution to the problem of malaria in Africa. A new supplement, published in BioMed Central's open access Malaria Journal, reviews the history of the technique, and features details about aspects of its application in the elimination of malaria.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Study Shows Link Between Influenza Virus And FeverEmail this article to a colleague.
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Viruses are microscopically sized parasites. They plant their genes in the cells of their victim in order to 'reprogram' them. The infected cells then no longer produce what they need to live, making lots of new viruses instead. Luckily, in most cases this hostile takeover does not go unnoticed. This is ensured by the cells' own sensors that recognise alien genetic material.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Skin Color Gives Clues To HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving the most desirable complexion. The work will be published in the December issue of Springer's International Journal of Primatology.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dermatology Source Type: news
Thousands of diabetics could be saved from needless amputation, claims 'one-stop shop' specialistEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dr Mike Edmonds, a diabetes consultant at King's College Hospital in London, believes that more than half of diabetic amputations could be avoided if all a patient's diabetic complications were treated, rather than just their feet.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health news: A berry good way to fight cancer and a new drug to treat goutEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health stories from around the world this week include how raspberries may help in the battle against cancer and the first new gout treatment in more than 40 years.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The breast cancer revolution that saves women from chemoEmail this article to a colleague.
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Patients in Austria are unlikely to receive chemotherapy. But they do better than women who undergo the treatment and avoid the gruelling side effects.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The empire strikes back pain (or how a surgical wedge ended this Star Wars actor's agony)Email this article to a colleague.
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Actor Richard Le Parmentier, 63, (best known as Admiral Motti from Star Wars) underwent a new treatment for severe neck pain, as he explains to JUDY HOBSON.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Could wearing a high-tech brace boost your hearing?Email this article to a colleague.
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A device that transmits sound through the teeth could help the hard-of-hearing. The high-tech gadget is clipped on to the teeth and works by sending sound up through the bones in the face to the centre of the ear.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Eating fibre may NOT be so good for your stomachEmail this article to a colleague.
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Irritable bowel syndrome sufferers are usually told by their GPs to eat more fibre. But a major study, due to be published soon in the British Medical Journal, shows conclusively that eating extra bran and other fibre is likely to do more harm than good.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Under the microscope: Alan Whicker, 84, answers our health quizEmail this article to a colleague.
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Broadcaster Alan Whicker on his war experience of jaundice, the BBC World Service and his home-made vegetable concoction for that super-quick vitamin hit.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Viewpoint: Can't get to see your GP? Here's who to blame...Email this article to a colleague.
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Do you often struggle to get an appointment with your GP? Patients are meant to be able to see their doctor within 48 hours, but a recent report found that millions still don't. Tom Sykes thinks he knows why.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fitness news: Exercise stops you wanting to smokeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Psychologists at the University of Exeter say even a moderate workout can reduce the smoker's interest in cigarettes.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ask the doctor: I often get pneumonia, so should I have a jab?Email this article to a colleague.
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Dr Martin Scurr has been treating patients for more than 30 years and is one of the country's leading GPs. Here he tackles pneumonia and cat allergies.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 'prostate problems' that could actually turn out to be male cystitisEmail this article to a colleague.
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As many as 400,000 people (ten per cent of them men) in the UK are thought to have the condition (commonly referred to as PBS/IC), mainly those between the ages of 20 to 50, according to the Cystitis and Overactive Bladder Foundation.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Greens to be gorgeous: Why eating your five fruit and veg a day makes you sexyEmail this article to a colleague.
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We're frequently told a good diet is essential for our health. But now Scottish researchers have given us an extra-enticing incentive to eat our greens.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Panel Suggests Delaying Regular Mammograms Until Age 50Email this article to a colleague.
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In a turnaround from long-standing guidelines from the American Cancer Society, a U.S. task force recommends that women begin regular breast-cancer screening at age 50, not 40
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info
'Female Viagra' discovery claimEmail this article to a colleague.
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A drug that failed tests as an antidepressant is being hailed as women's Viagra after surprising, but not unpleasant side effects.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Failed antidepressant could be 'female Viagra'Email this article to a colleague.
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A drug that failed tests as an antidepressant is being hailed as women's Viagra after surprising, but not unpleasant side effects.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Accidental discovery of 'female Viagra'Email this article to a colleague.
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A drug that failed tests as an antidepressant is being hailed as women's Viagra after surprising, but not unpleasant side effects.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Hospital 'makes dementia WORSE': Half of all patients deteriorate on NHS wardsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Thousands of Alzheimer's patients deteriorate so badly that they cannot return to their own homes and go into care instead.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Meditation can cut the risk of heart attacks by up to 47%, a new study showsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Transcendental meditation techniques that were all the rage during the Summer of Love in the 1960s can halve the rate of heart attacks and strokes in patients with cardiovascular disease.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.S. vs. China: Working Together on Global Warming?Email this article to a colleague.
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At loggerheads over several issues, the senior and junior superpowers (andcarbon producers) have lots of potential common ground on climate change
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info
Survival Rates From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Nearly DoubleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the Richmond Ambulance Authority have improved resuscitation and survival rates dramatically for cardiac arrest patients by training and equipping paramedics to begin lowering a patient's body temperature in the field during resuscitation and following up at the hospital with a host of high-tech strategies to improve the odds of survival.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
An Often Overlooked Protein Actually A Potent Regulator Of Cardiac HypertrophyEmail this article to a colleague.
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A protein long thought to be a secondary regulator in the heart's response to stressors like hypertension actually appears to be a primary regulator according to researchers from the Center for Translational Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. The data will be presented in the Late Breaking Science session at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news
Public May Find It Hard To Follow Measures To Limit Spread Of InfectionEmail this article to a colleague.
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The H1N1 flu virus is spreading misery around the country, but University of Michigan researchers say that implementing and sustaining infection-limiting measures will still be a challenge.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news
