h1n1 virus
| 4:30PM 12/03/2009
It's bad enough that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic has caused such widespread public anxiety, and it's worse that the vaccine has become its own source of concern, whether due to the shortage or spurious fears about its safety. Now, the bottom-feeders known as phishing scammers are exploiting the...
| 6:30PM 11/18/2009
It's a promise from Santa Claus, so it has to be good: The global swine flu pandemic won't stop him from delivering presents this year.
"I swear that Christmas will not be canceled this year," Father Christmas told Finnish national broadcaster YLE, explaining that many children were worried he...
| 1:30PM 11/13/2009
Microsoft and Google, two titans in technology, are separately trying to help combat the worst flu season in decades. First came an interactive Web site from Microsoft to help diagnose the swine flu.
Now comes a flu shot finder from Google to help find shots for the regular flu and swine flu. If...
| 9:00AM 10/30/2009
Emergency rooms and doctor's offices are flooded with phone calls and patients related to the swine flu. For instance, four hospitals in Onondaga County, N.Y. saw an 11% spike in patients in September 2009 over the same month last year.And while it's causing a fury in the health care industry, some...
| 4:00PM 10/29/2009
An innocent cough at work is no longer so innocent.
As the swine flu death toll slowly rises, most Americans want co-workers with flu symptoms to stay home. And if you come into work anyway, most of your colleagues will rat you out to senior management, according to a recent survey.
The survey...
| 9:00AM 10/15/2009
The swine flu outbreak has caused such a demand for hand sanitizers that the makers and distributors of Purell are warning individual consumers and large users such as hospitals that limited supplies of Purell may be available across the country.
The company that invented Purell, Gojo Industries...
| 4:45PM 8/18/2009
Novavax (NVAX) shares soared some 10 percent today after the small clinical-stage biotechnology company announced positive preclinical results for its new vaccine H1N1 influenza, or swine flu.
Novovax, based in Rockville, Maryland, developed the vaccine using proprietary virus-like particle (VLP)...
| 2:45PM 7/01/2009
Leave it to a skeptic like me to find something wrong with something that seems ao benevolent. Today, Swiss drug maker Roche Holdings AG (RHHVF) said it will cut the price of its viral drug Tamilflu for developing economies to what would amount to less than half the price it normally charges, and...