04.27.09

NKorea’s Kim increases tours despite health doubts (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:23 am by hope

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has drastically increased his inspection tours this year despite lingering questions about his health, according to figures provided by South Korea's unification ministry.

Global Warming and Your Health (Scientific American)

Posted in Uncategorized at 4:06 am by hope

The litany of direct health impacts associated with climate change is becoming well known. A rapidly warming world brings more heat-related deaths, more disease spread through contaminated food and water and by insects, and more injuries from more extreme storms. The most vulnerable individuals are the elderly, the very young and the medically infirm. And the most vulnerable people live in the ...

Swine Flu Spurs U.S. Health ‘Emergency’ as Cases Grow (Update2) (Bloomberg)

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:56 am by hope

April 26 (Bloomberg) -- A growing number of swine flu cases in the U.S. and Mexico led the Obama administration to declare a public health emergency and release stockpiles of medicine.

04.26.09

As flu hits, holes in W.H. health team (Politico via Yahoo! News)

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:37 pm by hope

The Obama administration declared a “public health emergency” Sunday to confront the swine flu — but is heading into its first medical outbreak without a secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department’s 19 key posts.

US declares swine flu outbreak a health emergency (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:57 pm by hope

The United States declared a swine flu outbreak a public health emergency Sunday as officials confirmed 20 cases in five US states and warned that they expected more in the coming days.

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