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151. How to Get H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
     

     Nov. 6, 2009 - You can get your H1N1 flu vaccine, but it will take perseverance, patience, and priority status. Priority goes to people at risk of severe flu if they catch the H1N1 swine flu bug: Pregnant women People who live with or care for infants younger than 6 months of age Health care workers

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152. H1N1 Swine Flu Deadly in All Age Groups
     

     Nov. 3, 2009 - H1N1 swine flu isn't always severe, but when it's bad, it's really bad. Patients hospitalized with pandemic flu have an 11% fatality rate, data from California suggest. The pandemic flu bug is far more likely to strike younger people. But when people aged 50 and older get hospitalized

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153. Swine Flu Vaccine Protects Pregnant Women
     

     Nov. 2, 2009 - Pregnant women safely get "robust" protection from one dose of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine; but children under age 10 really need two doses, NIH studies show. The findings are straight-from-the-clinic data from ongoing studies funded and coordinated by the National Institute of Allergy

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154. Swine Flu Study on N95 Masks Retracted
     

     Nov. 2, 2009 (Philadelphia) -- N95 masks may be no better than ordinary disposable surgical masks at preventing the flu, after all. The same researchers who reported in September that only N95 masks offer significant protection against flu now say a reanalysis of their data shows that just isn't tru

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155. Sick of Being Sick?
     

     14 research-proven ways to eat, drink, and even party to boost your immunity this season Winter bugs don't just make you feel miserable. Sick days create havoc at home and work. And those days can become weeks if a cold morphs into something more serious — a sinus or ear infection, or bronchitis. Fl

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156. Child H1N1 Swine Flu Deaths Rising
     

     Oct. 30, 2009 -- Last week's 19 new child deaths is the biggest single-week jump since the H1N1 swine flu pandemic began. The child death toll in the U.S. pandemic now stands at 114 and is certain to rise, CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, said today at a news conference. Frieden announced that

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157. Flu Vaccine Safe Throughout Pregnancy
     

     Oct. 30, 2009 (Philadelphia) -- Pregnant women who get the flu vaccine are less likely to have babies who are premature, small for their gestational age, or who have to be hospitalized, according to three new studies. A fourth study shows that the vaccine is safe throughout pregnancy -- even during

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158. Kids Shed H1N1 Virus 6 Days After Fever
     

     Oct. 29, 2009 (Philadelphia) -- Some elementary school kids with the swine flu are still shedding H1N1 virus six days after their fever strikes, a new study suggests. Researchers stopped short of saying these youngsters could still transmit the virus to their friends and family. But the findings rai

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159. Statin Drugs May Reduce Flu Deaths
     

     Oct. 29, 2009 (Philadelphia) -- Once again, the popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have been shown to be good for more than the heart: They may also lower your odds of dying of the flu. In a large study of people hospitalized with seasonal influenza, those who were taking statins were about 5

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160. 140 Times More Early Swine Flu Than Reported
     

     Oct. 29, 2009 - By the end of July, up to 5.7 million Americans -- 140 times the reported number -- had H1N1 swine flu. As many as 21,000 were hospitalized by July 23, the CDC now estimates. This suggests that the current number of H1N1 swine flu-related hospitalizations -- just under 22,000 from th

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