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H1N1 Health Alert: Children With Asthma At Greater Risk From H1N1 Influenza
Children with asthma are at greater risk to develop serious symptoms from H1N1 (swine) flu than from seasonal flu, according to a new study. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a new Canadian study found that children hospitalized with H1N1 were more likely to have asthma (22%) compared to children hospitalized with seasonal flu (6%)…
Influenza And H1N1: Alert For People With Lung Disease And Their Caregivers
People with lung disease like asthma and copd are at particular risk to develop serious symptoms from both seasonal flu and H1N1 (swine) flu. according to the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) more than half of adults hospitalized with the h1n1 strain of influenza had conditions such as asthma and chronic lung diseases. contact your health care provider if you feel the onset of flu symptoms and suffer from lung disease.
Hebrew University Scientists Discover ‘Alert Status’ Area In Brain
A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according to Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists. In an article published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists, Marshall Devor, the Cecile and Seymour Alpert Professor of Pain Research, graduate student Ruth Abulafia and research associate Dr.
‘Alert Status’ Area In Brain Discoved: New Understanding Of Anesthesia
A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according to scientists.
Flu Alert For People With Asthma, Australia
The National Asthma Council Australia is urging the two million Australians with asthma to remain extremely vigilant and seek an immediate lung function check from their GP following new data from the US which confirms people with an underlying medical condition are at highest risk of complications from swine flu – with more than 40 percent of people in New York hospitalised from swine flu having asthma1.
World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level To Phase 6
Following today’s decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise its H1N1 influenza pandemic alert to Phase 6, its highest level, Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor, is recommending that all organizations continue to focus on potential economic and jurisdictional issues in shaping their response to the current pandemic.
WHO To Incorporate Disease Severity Into Pandemic Alert Scale
A meeting of the WHO’s emergency committee held Friday to discuss the H1N1 (swine) flu ended without a pandemic declaration, but experts concluded that declarations would now be based upon the severity and transmission pattern of a virus,
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