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07/03/2009
Mexico wins praise for swine flu response (AP)

Pan American Health Organization Director Mirta Roses Periag speaks during the 'Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu' summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.



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07/02/2009
Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people (AP)

A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.



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07/02/2009
Advocates are back with real health care stories (AP)

Carpenter Greg Douglas sits with dozens of medical bills at his home in Harpswell, Maine, on Wednesday, July 1, 2009. The community held a benefit for him and put out collection cans to help with medical expenses after he was injured when his truck rolled on black ice. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - When carpenter Greg Douglas crashed his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000.



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07/02/2009
Federal probe finds problems with chelation study (AP)
AP - A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.
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About 'Online Health News'

Online Health News is a portal for all health-related news and information around the web, Here you'll find the latest information on a great variety of health topics, with real-time displays of 'feeds' from a variety of sources. We make these available for those who do not have a news reader to display these feeds, or would like a source for new health news articles from locations they may not have seen.
About News Feeds

News feeds are specially coded documents for quickly and easily delivery of information - they are not normally viewable in standard web browsers, however. They are, instead, read and displayed using applications specifically designed for the purpose.

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News feeds, or RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication Rich Site Summary) are usually delivered in XML (Extensible Markup Language - go here for more detail). All health news feeds on Online Health News are available for inclusion in your own news reader application. Clicking on the 'XML' symbol (some sites will use the 'RSS' symbol - they are interchangeable) will take your browser to the source of the news feed. However, you will need to install some sort of news reader application. A list of these is available here, or by clicking on the links to the individual application providers on the left-side navigation bar. Most are simple to set up and use. When you have installed a reader, you can then include the locations of the health news (or any news or blogs or any other information source) you wish to read on a regular basis. The news feed will be delivered to you 'on demand'.

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To read the health news feeds on this site, all you have to do is browse around. Clicking on a link associated with each feed (not the 'XML' symbol, but the text link) will take you to the source website where you will find more fun and perhaps helpful health news articles.

Please Note: The dates on a very few of the news feeds have been found to be incorrect; when the link to the whole article on the originating site is clicked, the true article date is found. We are working on the best way to resolve this issue. Thanks!

 

 

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