WHO rebukes homeopaths

The World Health Organization on Friday denounced in unusually strong terms advice by a Swiss homeopathic doctors association that pregnant women should avoid getting vaccinated against swine flu.

The Swiss Society of Homoeopathic Physicians said pregnant women shouldn't take either of the two vaccines licensed in Switzerland - Novartis' Focetria and GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix - claiming the effects on mothers and their unborn children have been insufficiently studied.

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Tamiflu supplies are running low

ST. LOUIS - It's been hard enough to find H1N1 vaccines for children. But if they get the flu, it can also be tough to get a prescription filled for the drug used to treat it.

The early and unexpected flu outbreak, along with kids' vulnerability to the illness, has created a national shortage of the liquid form of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. The liquid drug is prescribed to small children and anyone else who has trouble swallowing pills.

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Flu frustration goes on

ATLANTA - Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.

That's true even for people who are at extra risk for severe complications and should be at the front of the line. The numbers are about the same for parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children, the Harvard School of Public Health poll found.

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In Europe, an orderly approach helps to smooth flow of flu shots

LONDON - In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctors' offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it.

In England and across most of Europe, vaccine to protect against the pandemic flu is mostly given by invitation only to those at highest risk for flu complications.

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No snows of Kilimanjaro?

WASHINGTON - The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone.

The African mountain's white peak - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway - is rapidly melting, researchers report.

Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University reported this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Concussion recovery takes time

Q: My 57-year-old husband was assaulted in May and suffered a concussion. The back of his head hit the pavement hard, and he was punched a number of times in the forehead. He is still experiencing dizziness (like the room is spinning) and blurry vision. The doctor told him that he has post-concussion syndrome and says it may go away in a few months or it make take a year or more. He said there is a small chance it will never go away.

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In Europe, an orderly approach helps to smooth flow of flu shots

No snows of Kilimanjaro?

Concussion recovery takes time

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Know the difference between a cold and the flu

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WHO rebukes homeopaths

Tamiflu supplies are running low

Flu frustration goes on

In Europe, an orderly approach helps to smooth flow of flu shots

No snows of Kilimanjaro?

Concussion recovery takes time

Concussion recovery takes time

Know the difference between a cold and the flu

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