Topic: United States
Mexico's marijuana laws changed with the passage of revised legislation in April of 2009 . A bill nearly identical to the law that eventually became law in 2009 was passed by Mexico's congress in 2006 ; after a fierce reaction from US ...
ScienceInsider this week reported on a U.S. government official's prediction that H1N1 flu will continue unabated during the summer and into the fall, a decision by the G8 nations to skip science at their summit meeting in Italy this month, and an ...
When the pamphlet of man's deadliest disease is tabulated. Swine flu may be a fast-spreading outbreak, however to exaggerate the story and dogmatically dubbed it as "deadly", "lethal", and "malignant" is well adding fear to an overly scared humanity. Of these deaths ...
West Nile Virus has been seen in the United States, but not in large numbers. HIV/AIDS has lowered the life expectancy of adults in Africa at a time when life expectancy is increasing in other countries. The H1N1 virus has spread to ...
The swine flu pandemic has people in Mexico and the United States in a panic. As the Mexico City population don masks to keep from contracting this powerful, deadly disease, people can't help but fear the worst. Do not share drinks or ...
Schools and health departments have an obligation to take precautions, not set the standard for panic, at the sign of any contagious illness, such as the latest strain of Swine Flu (aka H1N1). New federal guidelines say that if a school has ...
The biggest difference between the swine flu and avian flu viruses is, of course, their natural hosts. The H1N1 subtype is also the cause of the Spring 2009 swine flu , or novel H1N1 flu , outbreak. Later, scientists discovered that the ...
The National Institute of Health has announced that it will soon begin trials of vaccines for the H1N1 flu . Nashville's Vanderbilt University , an internationally known institution in vaccine and other health-related research, is slated to join in the vaccine tests, ...
The FDA approved the H1N1 flu vaccine, which will be sold within the next few weeks. The US stopped updating the numbers simply because there is not much to count. Every year between 36 and 40 thousand of people die from flu ...
Health experts have raised the possibility that obesity is a major risk factor for serious complications from swine flu in the United States. It stated that a survey of individuals hospitalized in California with swine flu concluded that obesity might also raise ...