Reuters – The World Health Organization was poised on Thursday to declare that the new H1N1 virus has caused the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years, health sources said on Thursday.
AP – A tobacco control bill set to win Senate approval would give the federal government broad new powers to monitor and change a toxic substance that contributes to some 400,000 deaths every year.
AP – The World Health Organization held an emergency swine flu meeting Thursday and was likely to declare the first flu pandemic in 41 years as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.
AFP – The World Health Organization gathered its top scientific experts for an emergency meeting on Thursday to decide whether to declare a swine flu pandemic, with 74 countries now affected by the virus.
AFP – The World Health Organization gathered its top scientific experts for an emergency meeting on Thursday to decide whether to declare a swine flu pandemic, with 74 countries now affected by the virus.
AFP – World health officials were to meet on whether to declare a global flu pandemic, as Hong Kong ordered all of its primary schools shut after finding the first cluster of local swine flu cases.
AFP – Hong Kong authorities ordered all primary schools in the city to be closed for two weeks after the first cluster of local swine flu cases was found.
AFP – Hong Kong authorities ordered all primary schools in the city to be closed for two weeks after the first cluster of local swine flu cases was found.
Reuters – The Venezuelan government of U.S.-critic President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday ordered Coca-Cola Co to withdraw its Coke Zero beverage from the South American nation, citing unspecified dangers to health.
AP – A potential compromise emerged Wednesday on one of the most vexing issues of the health care overhaul debate whether to create a new government-sponsored health plan to compete with private insurers. The compromise offered by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., would create health care cooperatives owned by groups of residents and small businesses, similar to how electric or other cooperatives operate.