In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it.
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Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.
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The largest delivery yet of H1N1 vaccine to Wake County will enable area health clinics to run five vaccination programs starting Monday.
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CDC: Find more information about H1N1 flu
The national president of the NAACP said Thursday that too many North Carolina residents lack health insurance for people on Capitol Hill to delay passage of a health care overhaul bill until 2010.
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At Duke University, a school that likes to tout its cutting-edge research, a sex toy study being conducted by a behavioral economist and student health workers has roused criticism.
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French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.
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Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.
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Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.
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Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
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The World Health Organization's flu chief said the swine flu virus has now become the predominant flu strain worldwide.
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The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa.
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All religious congregations care for the sick.
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Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from rights groups.
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Candlelight Reflections' goal is to promote awareness that can help people in all stages of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
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As more H1N1 flu vaccine is shipped, North Carolina's battle with the pandemic strain seems to be easing, state health officials reported Wednesday.
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