GENEVA — Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spe...
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
In another sign of thawing relations, Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday met with Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party to...
RJ Eskow | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
We went from apocalypse to afterthought in about two weeks, and now we're swinging back. Here's a way to reconcile some of the different and seemingly contradictory perspectives we've been hearing.
James Love | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
Negotiators say that with regard to medical R&D, Obama is following the Bush game plan even more aggressively than was done when Bush was president.
World Vision | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
WHO decision-makers would do well to balance the H1N1 pandemic with their broader responsibility to set the right agenda for establishing better health care systems in developing countries.
DPA | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created in a laboratory, a World Health Organisation official said T...
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
If Latin American policymakers truly want to reduce abortion rates, they must focus their attention on improving knowledge about and access to a wide range of family planning methods.
ABC News | LEE FERRAN and JOSH GAYNOR | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
An Australian researcher claims the swine flu, which has killed at least 64 people so far, might not be a mutation that occurred naturally but a man-m...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — In China, mask-wearing police cordoned off more hotels Wednesday, quarantining anyone who came in contact with swine flu patients,...
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
The topic of swine flu is getting nudged from the front page by stories that are actually and quantifiably big. For the moment, the networks are shedd...
Richard Chin | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
Diarrheal diseases, which kill approximately 2 million children under the age of five in every year continue to receive less attention than diseases like the swine flu virus.
Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 07.08.2009 | Living
May marks Osteoporosis Awareness Month, and this year, let's shift the focus from increasing bone density to reducing fracture risk.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
The media's coverage of the H1N1 swine flu epidemic has been criticized by many for being overblown, fire-fanning, scare-mongering, overly hyped, and ...
Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Regional disease surveillance networks be established -- both among developing countries and developed ones -- in order to improve the quality of detection and control across borders.
Global Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
Following its accusation of China's "discrimination" against its citizens during attempts to contain the far-reaching A (H1N1) influenza, the Mexican ...
LA Times | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 06.02.2009 | World
Although the pace of new H1N1 infections seemingly slowed on Saturday -- with a total of 195 cases reported in the United States and 763 worldwide, an...
Washington Post | Joel Achenbach and David Brown | Posted 06.01.2009 | Home
So is this new swine flu outbreak the next great plague, or just a global spasm of paranoia? ...
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
As the WHO raises its warning to just this side of official pandemic, and Joe Biden tells his family to avoid confined spaces, the backlash is also setting in.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
There were reports of local San Diego residents acting pig-headed and hogging the road more than usual, but so far any connection to the swine flu outbreak has yet to be established.
UPI | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
Eleven countries officially reported 257 cases of H1N1, or swine flu, the World Health Organization in Geneva reported Thursday....
Spencer Green | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy
Our Water Is Now the Least of Your Worries
Spain Got It On Its Own, So What Have You Got to Lose?
Richard Walden | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
Poor and medically underserved communities need free access to the simplest of protective materials.
AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a globa...
Globe And Mail | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
The World Health Organization is moving closer to raising the pandemic alert level once again as the swine flu outbreak continues to hop from one coun...
AP | MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 07.11.2009 | World