Health headlines - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Prevention Programs States cut funding for tobacco prevention programs by more than 15 percent in the past year, even though they’re receiving record amounts of money from tobacco taxes and from the 1998 state tobacco settlement, says a report
Is the US swine flu epidemic over? - Khaleej Times
ATLANTA — If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its course, they did report Friday that
CDC see decline in swine flu - World Link
ATLANTA — Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won’t go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity. U.S. cases have been declining since
About 70 million Americans receive A/H1N1 flu vaccine - People’s Daily Online
Nearly 70 million Americans have received A/H1N1 flu vaccine out of the 147 million doses available, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday. “About 70 million people have been vaccinated against the H1N1 virus
Too few adults get recommended vaccinations - abc40
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for all adults aged 65 and older. For most people, this is a one-time shot that will protect them from developing pneumonia, which is often a serious complication of flu. Flu vaccine is another example.