The secretaries of commerce, education and homeland security offered guidance to businesses on how to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus and how to prepare for a major outbreak. They stressed the importance of allowing employees who exhibit flu symptoms to go home and stay home until at least 24 hours after their fevers [...]
The number of H1N1 flu-infected patients has reached 21 in Myanmar, according to the Health Department Sunday.The authorities continue to take preventive measures against the possible spread of the global human flu pandemic, advising all private clinics in the country to report or transfer all flu-suspected patients, who returned from abroad, to local state-run hospitals [...]
At the Pentagon, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli said suicides reported among Army soldiers in the last four and a half months totaled 51, compared to 41 in the first two months of the year alone.Suicides reported among soldiers have tapered off from extreme highs of early this year amid intense Army [...]
The findings come from the latest roadside survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration based on breath, saliva, blood samples and questionnaires taken from randomly selected drivers in 300 locations around the United States. In 1973, 7.5 percent of drivers had a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. (A level of .08 is [...]
All the recalled beef is in boxes bearing “EST. 969″ and packaging date codes of 042109 or 042209. They have case codes of 21852, 21853, 31852, 31853, 33852, 33853, 41853, 41853, 79852, 79853 or 90853.JBS Swift Beef Co. of Greeley has recalled about 41,000 of its beef products because of possible E. coli contamination.The products [...]
As the temperature goes up and people start going outside, we want to make sure that people are aware of that fact that some mosquitoes do carry disease,’’ said Dr. Catherine Brown, state public health veterinarian. While the month’s rains may not cause a bump in mosquito numbers, the mild winter and prolonged snow cover [...]
In a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate tells a court-appointed receiver that the state cannot afford the $1.9 billion fix Cate agreed to last month.Schwarzenegger said in a statement Thursday that California cannot afford the additional cost.The Schwarzenegger administration has rejected a plan designed to end years of litigation [...]
Scientists have long thought obese people have a higher cancer risk, possibly because fat cells produce hormones that might lead to the disease.Women who have their stomachs stapled can cut their cancer risk by up to 40% – but men don’t seem to reap the benefit, a study shows.Being overweight as a young adult increases [...]
The test is based on a protein excreted in the urine by patients who have an infection in the appendix. Led by Dr. Richard Bachur, chief of emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston, researchers discovered the hallmark protein by collecting and analyzing urine samples from 12 pediatric patients with confirmed cases of appendicitis (determined by [...]
China’s top epidemiologist said Tuesday that the country is closely monitoring any possible new mutation of the A/H1N1 flu virus. 28,774 confirmed cases of swine flu have been reported in 74 countries across the world, including 13,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. The disease has caused 144 deaths throughout the world, including [...]