Swine flu is spreading so rapidly across Britain that there could be 100,000 new cases a day by the end of next month, the health secretary, Andy Burnham, said today. The UK would immediately move to the “treatment phase” of its plan to combat swine flu, meaning doctors would no longer test for the H1N1 [...]

Nine new cases of swine flu were reported in the country on Saturday taking the total number of cases to 91. Four cases each was reported from Delhi and Bangalore while one from Punjab, a senior health ministry official said. In Bangalore, a family of four, which reached yesterday transiting through Germany from Newark in [...]

With the number of reported HIV cases in Illinois on the rise, area health officials are encouraging the public to get tested this week in recognition of National HIV Testing Day on Saturday. Educational events and free testing are available throughout the suburbs starting Wednesday with a program at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar [...]

The Ministry of Health announced five more cases of swine flu yesterday raising the total number of confirmed cases to 22. The five new cases involve two Filipino nurses who were treating one of the patients infected with the H1N1 virus at Riyadh’s King Abdul Aziz Medical City; a two-year-old boy of unreported nationality [...]

The government needs to create a public health insurance plan because many parts of the country are monopolized by a single private health insurer, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday in an interview. Ms. Sebelius told The Wall Street Journal that a new public health insurance plan would benefit consumers by [...]

“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The largest tobacco investor on the list, the 160-year old Prudential company with [...]

Merck & Co Inc  said on Wednesday it was exploring the divestiture of its stake in an animal health venture, or selling a similar unit at Schering-Plough Corp as part of the planned merger of two pharmaceutical companies. “We are exploring the opportunities open to us by evaluating the potential for divesting Schering-Plough’s animal [...]

Tuberculosis Drug Effective Treatment for Resistant Disease
The first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years has been shown to make current treatment 5 times more effective against drug-resistant TB, Reuters reported Wednesday. In combination with a cocktail of other medicines, the experimental drug known as TMC207 helped get rid of tuberculosis bacteria in nearly half [...]

A letter from the Marathon County Health Department was sent home with students of Hawthorne Hills Elementary School. Health department leaders say they want the community to practice good habits, as with any virus, to help prevent the spread. A letter sent home with students advises parents that a fourth grader is confirmed to [...]

Most of the Saudi families planning summer vacations abroad are going ahead with their travel itinerary despite the outbreak of deadly swine flu in many parts of the world.Saudi families chose their summer destinations to get away from the daily grind of life and give their children a break from the studies “I think that [...]