Welcome!

Pandemic Medical New Updates

Swine Influenza News

Subscribe to Swine Influenza News: eMailAlertsEmail Alerts
Get Swine Influenza News via: homepageHomepage mobileMobile rssRSS facebookFacebook twitterTwitter linkedinLinkedIn


Top Stories by Swine Influenza News

Swine flu infection of health care workers (or as CDC refers to them, health care personnel or HCP) was of interest early in the pre-pandemic phase for at last two reasons. One was the obvious goal of estimating the risk to front line workers and devising best practices for their protection. Another was the belief, reinforced by the SARS outbreak in 2003, that spread to HCP was an early warning that the virus was easily transmissible from person to person. SARS is a disease where patients are most infectious in the later stages when they are extremely ill, and HCP were among the hardest hit groups. Most flu is transmitted in the community, but the SARS model still seems appropriate for flu viruses like H5N1 ("bird flu") where transmission is rare. Any report that a heal... (more)

If you smell, here's a remedy [Effect Measure]

If you don't want to smell, the FDA has a recommendation: use an over-the-counter cold remedy that contains an intranasal zinc solution. You won't smell. Possibly ever again: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ... (more)

CRISP is dead to me; Long live... [DrugMonkey]

RePORTER!! This is so much better. h/t: writedit Read the comments on this post... ... (more)

Is Electroacupuncture an Effective Treatment for Hypertension? [On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess]

There are a couple of fantastic boy bloggers here at ScienceBlogs who write about the marketing of unvalidated alternative therapies to patients (a practice they call "woo"). I agree with them that is completely unethical to market a therapy (or, non-therapy) using claims that have not been scientifically tested and peer reviewed.  That said, is there any value to treatments we tradition... (more)

Severe cases in swine flu: lack of clinical details [Effect Measure]

Two elite flu reporters, Helen Branswell (Canadian Press) and Declan Butler (Nature), both noted yesterday the dearth of clinic information on the serious and fatal swine flu cases. First Butler: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ... (more)