Shots - Health News Why Rush Limbaugh Should Skip Costa Rica For Health Care March 10, 2010 • Before Limbaugh books a trip down south, he might take a closer look at the health system in the Central American country. Government funding dominates it.
Shots - Health News Spanning The Globe In Search Of Disease November 4, 2009 • If you're interested in bluetongue disease, chikungunya fever or swine flu, check out ProMED.
Shots - Health News Why Not Buy A Kidney? August 5, 2009 • Experts differ on whether dirty money leads to dirty kidneys in any financial exchange over transplanted organs.
Shots - Health News Pandemic Flu Declaration, Coming At You June 11, 2009 • WHO's likely declaration of a swine flu pandemic today feels a bit anticlimactic, since we've been warned for weeks.
Shots - Health News Taking Wheelchair Tai Chi To China May 29, 2009 • Wheelchair tai chi helps disabled Americans, both the jocks and the non-jocks.
Shots - Health News Why No Flu Pandemic? Define Pandemic May 22, 2009 • WHO will not declare that swine flu, or H1N1, has reached pandemic proportions. But it's leaving open the question for now of whether it will change its own definition of exactly what would trigger a pandemic.
Shots - Health News When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic? May 21, 2009 • Many countries are questioning why the WHO has not moved the new swine flu pandemic threat level from an imminent pandemic to an actual one.
Shots - Health News Food And Flu And You May 18, 2009 • When Egypt slaughtered its pig population to protect the country against swine flu a few weeks ago, many scientists dismissed it as an overreaction. There is no evidence eat
Shots - Health News Why Are Virus Outbreaks Often Not As Bad As First Feared? May 6, 2009 • Why do outbreaks caused by flu and other viruses often seem worse initially than they turn out to be?
Shots - Health News Egyptians Told To Pray In Open Areas To Thwart Swine Flu May 6, 2009 • Not to pick on Egypt but that nation continues to exhibit among the most extreme reactions to swine flu to be seen internationally.
Shots - Health News A Russian view of swine flu May 5, 2009 • This Russia Today report on the swine flu is a weird mash-up of several flu-related stories ranging from the humorous to the super serious. It all makes sense when you take into account that the Russian news
Shots - Health News Swine Flu's $2.2 Bln Hit To Mexican Economy May 5, 2009 • A Mexican official reported today that the swine flu's financial impact on his nation's economy was more than $2 billion so far.
Shots - Health News Why No Avian Flu-Related Poultry Slaughter In Egypt? May 5, 2009 • Why hasn't Egypt slaughtered its entire poultry population?
Shots - Health News Mexico Starts Flying Citizens Home From China May 5, 2009 • Mexico brings residents home from China.
Shots - Health News Husband Details Wife's Forced Quarantine In China May 5, 2009 • A Canadian man describes how his wife was forced into quarantine by Chinese authorities.