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AP – As schools around the world reopen, health authorities are bracing for a major spike in swine flu.

Reuters – Fewer Americans are afraid that they will be unable to pay for healthcare services and fewer expect to postpone medical treatments due to costs, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published on Monday.

AP – When is swine flu just miserable and when do you need a doctor?

AFP – Twin outbreaks of a flu-like illness and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2,000 villagers, a senior medical official said Monday.

AP – Doctors don’t know yet if it will take one dose or two of vaccine to protect against the new swine flu. Add that to vaccine for the regular winter flu, and it could be a multishot season for a lot of people — or a multisquirt season, for those who choose the FluMist nasal-spray version.

AP – The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world’s dominant strain of influenza, and it’s putting a shockingly younger face on flu.

AP – As schools around the world reopen, health authorities are bracing for a major spike in swine flu.

HealthDay – SUNDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — Young football players and
other athletes face the risk of major heat injury and illness if they push
themselves too hard in hot weather, warn sports medicine experts.

HealthDay – SUNDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — A new anti-clotting drug,
ticagrelor (Brilinta), was better than than clopidogrel (Plavix) in
preventing new heart attacks and in reducing deaths among patients who
have had a heart attack, a new study finds.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) — The latest results from the
longest-running study yet confirm that surgery is better than
artery-opening angioplasty in preventing strokes caused by blockage of the
carotid artery, the largest vessel carrying blood to the brain.