News tagged with 'Public Health'

The World Health Organization is denying critics who accuse the international health agency of hyping the H1N1 pandemic and being unduly influenced by big pharmaceutical companies that benefitted from lucrative vaccine contracts.

A number of bans are going into effect with the new year that determine where you smoke and what you eat.

In major announcement, the 50,000 member American Public Health Association is calling for a ban in the use of artificial dairy hormones and growth hormones used in beef cattle, especially in those foods served to school children. Just last year the American Nurses Association also voiced its opposition.

Miami-Dade health officials have cleared the luxury Epic Hotel of the Legionella bacteria that killed one tourist. Where it came from they are not saying. But the two others sickened did contract Legionnaires' disease from the hotel, which is being cleaned and remains closed.

Sanofi-Aventis has pulled four lots of infant swine flu vaccine, about 800,000 doses because of a potency problem. The vaccine should still work, the CDC says.

Legionnaires' disease was first identified in 1976 at a convention in Philadelphia. Now a Miami hotel, which recently upgraded its filter system to remove chlorine, finds that instead the hotel had a growth of the dangerous bacteria which killed one guest and sickened two others.

The European Union is issuing a warning to parents that the GSK Pandemrix is giving young children a fever after the second dose for swine flu.

The World Health Organization has just approved GlaxoSmithKline's latest swine flu vaccine, made with adjuvants, to be used in developing countries.

A poll says 51 percent of Americans would fly when sick with the swine flu or seasonal influenza because of the stiff penalties imposed by the airlines for changing plans.

The CDC now has revised upwards its estimate of the number of people who've died from swine flu to 4,000 when it tallies in those with bacterial infections and pneumonia. Meanwhile a Virginia teen has suffered a serious reaction and critics say we need to tighten up adverse event reporting to get a better handle on the big picture.

Swine flu inoculation side effects will be monitored by an independent panel of experts from public health to see if we repeat the side effects noted from the 1976 swine flu vaccine.

Pregnant women and mothers of young children are wary of the the swine flu vaccine. According to a new Harris Interactive poll, only one out of four plans to be jabbed - mainly out of fear of the new formulations.

Plum Organics of Emeryville, California blames a mixing error for a recall of one batch of baby food, undertaken as a precaution due to a risk of potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum, which can -- but does not necessarily -- cause botulism.

Salmonella has contaminated two brands of California grown spinach that were quickly traced to distributors in 12 states and Canada before they made anyone sick.

The majority of college campuses are reporting cases of swine flu, which can be especially severe in young people who do not have a lifetime of immunity. Campuses are gearing up.