"swine flu" News

Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to day that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity.

Like nearly one-third of American teens, Paris Woods is overweight. Her doctor worries her weight will creep up into the obesity range. One out of four black girls her age is obese.

The World Health Organization also dismissed claims it colluded with drug companies to bring economic benefit to the industry by playing up the danger of the new H1N1 influenza strain.

Preliminary figures show most of the adults hospitalized with swine flu in the Portland metro area during the last four months of 2009 had underlying health problems that put them at higher risk.

Wellesley school officials said several staff members at an elementary school had to be taken to the hospital after being injected with insulin rather than the swine flu vaccine.

Conjoined twins from Arizona have already defied medical expectations by living past their third birthdays. Now their parents hope the girls will become one of the first sets of twins sharing a heart to be successfully separated.

Japan Airlines is expected to file for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, ending months-long speculation about its fate and launching a massive overhaul to shed the fat and inefficiency that hobbled Asia's biggest airline.

Now that the current outbreak appears to have peaked in much of Europe, many Poles feel their government has been vindicated.

Get ready for a huge flu-shot push as health officials try to rekindle interest in protection against this new influenza strain that, despite plummeting cases, still is threatening lives — even as they reassess just how much more vaccine needs to be shipped.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also reported Friday that there are no signs of seasonal flu right now, only the swine variety.

John Chapman was connected to at least 13 intravenous tubes at a time, his lung collapsed, his blood pressure nose-dived, his kidneys quit, and his digestive system shut down and he developed blood clots after his H1N1 diagnosis turned nearly fatal.

It is too early to declare that the swine flu pandemic has peaked worldwide and many more people could become sick with the virus this winter, the head of the World Health Organization said in an interview published Tuesday.

Swine flu is not only dangerous to pregnant women, but it's a threat to new mothers too, the first study to document this risk shows.