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Three stories have largely dominated the media over the past year and as it turns out one of them was not nearly as bad as we thought.  The global economy has been the talk of the year, with most countries continuing to be mired in a recession unlike any we have seen in modern history.  [...]

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One of the top stories of the last year has been the outbreak of the swine flu virus.  All over the world people have been affected by the flu, with some simply missing school or work, while others are falling gravely ill or dying.  Because of this, topics of health have been on the tip [...]

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Newspapers around the world have been warning citizens that the threat of the global pandemic known as H1N1 is not over and in fact may be getting worse.  Hospitals around the globe saw the numbers of swine flu patients drop slightly after the peak summer months, but the numbers are again on the rise leading [...]

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Yesterday, medical experts encouraged couples to not be alarmed at the idea of becoming pregnant amidst the swine flu pandemic. Beginning this week, pregnant women will be among the first to receive the H1N1 vaccine. The announcement comes in the wake of Denise Murray, a 17-year old soon-to-be mother, whose life and that of her [...]

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A vaccine which aims to quell the outbreak of swine flu in the United Kingdom has been approved by The European Drugs Regulator.  The UK has been very proactive in the development of the vaccine as well as purchasing enough doses for every member of the United Kingdom.  Thus far, the United Kingdom has bought [...]

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With updated scientific models concerning a second wave of the swine flu virus outbreak, health officials in the United Kingdom recently lowered the predicted death toll significantly.  Some of England’s top medical advisors said that the original prediction that over sixty five thousand people would die was far too high.  The new prediction, which is [...]

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Drug makers, manufacturers of face masks and even unscrupulous Internet-based operators are finding that the swine flu pandemic can be very lucrative. When England’s chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson warned that the swine flu outbreak was presenting the National Health Service (NHS) with its “biggest challenge in a generation”, not everyone was sent into [...]

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Due to fears about bringing the swine flu virus into its supermarkets, Sainbsury’s has decided to opt out of distributing the anti-flu drug Tamiflu at its in-store pharmacies. Although the company has revealed that some of its in-store pharmacies are supplying Tamiflu as an “interim measure”, it does not plan on becoming an official collection [...]

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