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Experts with links to drugs industry 'hyped swine flu'
Conclusion This was a well-conducted study, albeit based on a small sample of articles. The finding that academics with ties to the drugs industry were more likely to make a higher assessment of risk from swine flu, and those promoting the use of antiviral drugs were more likely to have industry links, is worrying. The general issue of academics with undisclosed links to the pharmaceutical industry being interviewed by journalists is of concern. That said, the study does not prove that media coverage either fuelled public anxiety about swine flu or the policy decisions made about drug or vaccine funding. Similarly, the...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Medication Swine flu Source Type: news

Swine flu deaths in 2009 much higher than previously estimated
A new study by over 60 researchers from 26 countries suggests that the number of people who died in the 2009 global H1N1 "swine flu" outbreak is much higher than official figures show.Writing in PLOS Medicine, they estimate the total respiratory deaths worldwide to be up to 203,000, some 10 times higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) official total, which is based on lab-confirmed cases.When they added deaths by other causes exacerbated by H1N1, the figure was nearly double this amount, or over 20 times higher than the WHO lab-confirmed cases.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

Tamiflu Resistant Swine Flu Virus Circulating In The Population
Tamiflu-resistant strains of H1N1pdm09 (2009 pandemic Swine Flu) are being increasingly detected in community patients who never received the drug, suggesting that the resistant strains are spreading, a researcher from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Melbourne Australia, announced at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) in Canberra, Australia. Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news

Scientists concerned at H7N9 bird flu outbreak that has killed 24 people
• Virus killing a fifth of those infected in China• World Health Organisation considers it a serious threatScientists are seriously concerned about a new bird flu virus that is causing severe disease in China, killing a fifth of all those it infects.So far, the virus, known as H7N9, is being transmitted only to humans from chickens, but there are worries that it could mutate into a form that could be passed from one person to another. Five mutations are known to be necessary for that to happen – H7N9 already has two of them. If that occurred, it could spread worldwide with lethal effect.According to the World Health ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 1, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Bird flu Asia Pacific World news Infectious diseases Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Microbiology China Editorial Science Source Type: news

Evaluation of treatment with Oseltamivir during the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic: the problem of incomplete clinical information.
Authors: Hanafi S, Hayatshahi A, Torkamandi H, Javadi MR Abstract During the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic of 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed more than 14,000 deaths globally; this included a death toll of 147 in Iran. In order to evaluate (a) the appropriateness of the Oseltamivir dose through calculation of a patient’s creatinine clearance (CrCl) and (b) the quality of data in the medical charts, we conducted a retrospective study at the Shariati Hospital in Tehran. All admissions to the hospital between the dates 1 October 2009 and 31 January 2010 were evaluated, amounting to a total of 51 pati...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - November 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Doctor's Diary: Swine flu scientists were too close to big pharma
Experts advising the World Health Organisation had done paid work for pharmaceutical companies, says Dr James LeFanu    
Source: The Telegraph : Swine Flu A H1N1 - November 18, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Ebola crisis 'claimed needless lives' because World Health Organisation failed to act quickly
Internal memos showed the WHO was reluctant to declare a public health emergency after it had its fingers burned with the Swine Flu pandmeic
Source: Telegraph Health - November 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ebola lancet deaths epidemic pandemic world health organisation swine flu Source Type: news

WHO issues warning as swine flu detected in Europe - symptoms of disease
The World Health Organization reported on a recent case of swine flu.
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Death toll for 2009 pandemic flu much higher than official worldwide estimates
A research team consisting of more than 60 collaborators in 26 countries has estimated the global death toll from the 2009 outbreak of the H1N1 virus to be 10 times higher than the World Health Organization's count, which was based on laboratory-confirmed cases of this flu. The study, which appears online in PLOS Medicine, suggests that the pandemic virus caused up to 203,000 respiratory deaths around the world.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

Predicting hotspots for future flu outbreaks
This year's unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are creating new ways to predict where an outbreak could emerge.   "Using surveillance of influenza cases in humans and birds, we've come up with a technique to predict sites where these viruses could mix and generate a future pandemic," said lead author Trevon Fuller, a UCLA postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's Center for Tropical Research.   The researchers'...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 14, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

80 years ago today: MRC researchers discover viral cause of flu | Michael Bresalier
Forget bird flu and swine flu, it was ferret flu and The Field magazine that helped MRC scientists discover the influenza virus, after eleven years of dedicated research.In the spring of 1933 a team of Medical Research Council (MRC) staff gathered nasal fluids and throat garglings from a sick researcher, filtered them, and dripped them into ferrets. Within forty-eight hours the ferrets would start sneezing and displaying signs of an influenza-like disease. This research formed the basis of an extraordinarily important Lancet paper by Wilson Smith, Christopher H Andrewes and Patrick Laidlaw, published on 8 July 1933, identi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 8, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Medical research History of science Source Type: news

German measles is 'offensive' to the Germans warns WHO
The World Health Organisation has warned that diseases like Spanish Flu, legionnaire's disease and German measles could be offensive
Source: Telegraph Health - May 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: banned pigs offensive who diseases rebrand Swine flu ANIMALS world health organisation rename Source Type: news

Aspects of functioning in people with narcolepsy identified by the ICF core set for sleep disorders: preliminary results
Introduction: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a World Health Organization classification that can be used to assess patients ´ problems and needs, and to determine the rehabilitation potential of the individual. A first Comprehensive (120 categories) and a Brief (14 categories) ICF Core Sets for Sleep Disorders have been developed. However, these Core Sets need a further validation, and a specific Core Set for narcolepsy is still lacking. The aim of this study was to use the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for Sleep Disorders to identify aspects of functioning in narcolepsy patie...
Source: Sleep Medicine - December 1, 2017 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: A. Govi, F. Pizza, G. Plazzi, F. Ingravallo Tags: Narcolepsy Source Type: research

Get the flu vaccine, reduce your risk of death
Last year was a lousy year for the flu vaccine. Hospitalizations for flu hit a nine-year high, and the vaccine prevented flu in only 23% of all recipients, compared with 50% to 60% of recipients in prior years. Why does the flu vaccine work well in some winters and not others? The flu vaccine primes the immune system to attack two proteins on the surface of the influenza A virus, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). Different flu strains have different combinations of these proteins — for example, the strains targeted by recent flu vaccines are H3N2 and H1N1. Unfortunately, the influenza virus is microbiology’s ans...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - September 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Cold and Flu Vaccines Flu Shot flu vaccine Source Type: news