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HEALTH | Comment

Reduce Your Risk for Swine Flu by Reducing Your Stress!

BY Carol Scott
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Nov 3, 2009 at 12:03 PM

10 Simple Remedies for Staying Healthy During Flu SeasonREAD»

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H1N1 iPhone Apps Reach Fever Pitch, Prices Are Nothing to Sneeze At

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM

Reports about the new swine flu surfaced last March. By April, there was an App for that. Now there are close to 30 swine flu-related Apps in Apple's Store, the most recent from Harvard Medical School. The HMS Mobile Swine Flu ...READ»

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H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Spam Is Itself a Virus

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 90
Thu Dec 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM

If you're like several of us, you've received the email claiming to offer info about state H1N1 vaccination programs run by the CDC. Considering the frenzy that's ensued over the national shortage of H1N1 vaccines, it's easy to ...READ»

HEALTHCARE + MEDICINE | 5 comments

Avian Anxiety

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 80
Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 9:56 AM

Yesteray, The New York Times devoted its entire science section to the threat of Avian flu becoming a global pandemic. It took something of an on-the-one hand, on-the-other perspective, but the stories, particularly those about the ...READ»

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China's Sinovac Is Exporting H1N1 Vaccine, but Who Will Vaccinate the Chinese?

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 75
Thu Sep 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Chinese vaccine manufacturer, Sinovac has the first government-approved H1N1 vaccine in its possession, and now stands to make a killing in exports. Mexico has already ordered 10 million doses, according to a recent report in China ...READ»

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My Brush with Swine Flu--We Dodged It, But What About Next Time?

BY Cali Yost
Relevancy Score: 66
Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 10:22 AM

At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force. Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time? Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ»

SWINE FLU | Comment

Where is Swine Flu? [Google Map Mashup]

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 66
Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 2:44 AM

Outbreaks of swine flu have been identified in Mexico, the United States and Europe, according to the World Health Organization. The super-virus--an amalgamation of strains that circulate in pigs, humans and birds--is known as H1N1, ...READ»

H1N1 | Comment

Tracking H1N1 in (Near) Real Time

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 65
Mon Nov 9, 2009 at 6:36 PM

In July, the World Health Organization threw its hands up, declared H1N1 the fastest spreading pandemic ever, and said tracking individual cases was hopeless. But that hasn't stopped Google and, now, GE Healthcare from trying. ...READ»

HEALTH CARE | Comment

Office Handbook

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 64
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:51 AM

You can get sick, but only on your time.READ»

CALIFORNIA HEALTH INSURANCE | Comment

Swine Flu Survival Guide

BY Matt Lockard
Relevancy Score: 63
Wed Oct 14, 2009 at 4:01 PM

When Suzie Porcine went to the “swine flu” assembly she asked questions. Word got back to her dad what his daughter had asked.READ»

ADVERTISING + PR | 5 comments

Sauerkraut's Sweet Spot

Relevancy Score: 63
Thu Dec 22, 2005 at 10:50 AM

Sauerkraut--it’s not just for Christmas Eve dinner anymore. Love it or hate it, cabbage is getting plenty of press for its potential to fight illness ranging from cancer to bird flu. It all began a few months ago when South Korean ...READ»

INFO GRAPHICS | 1 comment

Infographic of the Day: The Swine Flu Epidemic

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 62
Wed Sep 2, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Is the U.S. hoovering up Tamiflu, while the rest of the world suffers? Not so fast.READ»

TEAMWORK | Comment

Mastering Disaster

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 61
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:12 AM

The worst is yet to come--and, believe it or not, someone is preparing for it.READ»

H1N1 | Comment

How Are Florida and Utah Keeping Swine Flu at Bay?

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 55
Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 9:53 AM

When FiveThirtyEight's political minesweeper Nate Silver analyzes the data from Google Flu Trends, there are bound to be some notable results. We're previously written about how Google Flu Trends uses flu-related search data to ...READ»

SWINE FLU | Comment

Twitter Catches Swine Flu, But Don't Shoot the Messenger

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 54
Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 7:51 AM

As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»

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Outbreaks Near Me iPhone App Tracks Swine Flu Progression

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 54
Tue Sep 1, 2009 at 11:25 AM

While we wait for scientists to perfect a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab have offered up a helpful tool in our arsenal against the flu: the Outbreaks Near Me iPhone app, ...READ»

HEALTH INSURANCE | Comment

The Coming Flu | Health Insurance Companies Ramp Up Inoculation

BY Sandra Cohen
Relevancy Score: 54
Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Swine flu is one of the biggest medical concerns on the minds of many these days, and health insurance companies have been trying to explain to customers what inoculations and other services are available based on their plan's coverage.READ»

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Tracking H1N1: Google Flu Trends Go Global

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 46
Thu Oct 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM

Earlier today, Google announced that it was expanding its flu trends program to 16 additional countries, bringing the total to 20 countries. Google first released the program last November after noticing a geographical correlation ...READ»

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Why Vaccine Makers Can't Keep Up with the H1N1 Virus

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 45
Fri Oct 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM

There isn't enough H1N1 vaccine to go around, which is why President Barack Obama declared the outbreak a national emergency over the weekend. Why can't we produce H1N1 vaccines fast enough? Because of chicken eggs.READ»

SWINE FLU | 1 comment

Can Protein Sciences Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine in Time? Update: Likely No

BY Erica Westly
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM

As the start of a new school year begins, concerns over H1N1--aka swine flu--are growing. Everyone's waiting to hear when a vaccine will be available, and earlier this summer, the CDC predicted that 120 million doses ... READ»

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Tech Watch: Google Knows If Your Kids Have The Flu

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 39
Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 6:15 PM

Google.org takes on the spread of flu, IBM takes on broadband over power lines, and the Department of Justice takes on tech companies LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa for price-fixing LCD panels.READ»

GOOGLE | Comment

Google's Data Show Tennessee, Florida Most Troubled Over Health Care

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 39
Mon Nov 9, 2009 at 1:51 PM

Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»

HEALTHCARE + MEDICINE | 2 comments

Doctors, Help Us Heal Ourselves

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 39
Wed May 17, 2006 at 3:58 PM

I just learned about a fascinating initiative in which 20 global health organizations and universities are working with IBM to see whether an open-source approach might help clip the wings of bird flu. Building on the work of Larry ...READ»

EPICARD | Comment

Technology That Can Make You a Hero

BY Francisco Dao
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 5:20 AM

Twin brothers Evan and Eric Edwards grew up in constant fear that the next thing they ate would kill them. Diagnosed with severe food allergies, they knew that with one wrong bite they would have only seconds to react if they wanted ...READ»

DNA | Comment

DNA Purification Gets Portable for Developing World

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 33
Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 7:57 AM

DNA analysis is key to many modern medical techniques, but usually requires a whole bunch of electronics and chemistry in a lab environment. That's not suitable for poorer nations, so a science team has simplified it to the ...READ»

Topic: Influenza