US swine flu cases grow to nearly 18,000
ATLANTA (AP) -- Nearly 5,000 new U.S. swine flu cases have been reported in the last week, due partly to its continuing spread in the Northeast....
WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years
GENEVA (AP) -- Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years. Thursday's announcement by the World Health Organization doesn't mean the virus is any more lethal - only that its spread is considered unstoppable....
Novartis says produces first batch of H1N1 vaccine
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis AG said Friday it has successfully produced a first batch of swine flu vaccine weeks ahead of expectations....
AMA wary of Obama call for public health insurance
CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Medical Association, the nation's largest doctors group, is wary of President Barack Obama's call for public health insurance. It doesn't want government meddling in their jobs....
Swine flu may have been spreading in August
NEW YORK (AP) -- As early as last August, the swine flu virus may have been spreading among people - long before it was first recognized in April, scientists reported Thursday....
AMA wary of Obama call for public health insurance
CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's largest doctors group isn't sold on President Barack Obama's call for a public health plan and could be a hurdle to his reform efforts....
AP IMPACT: $2.5B spent, no alternative med cures
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do....
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