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David Goldstein | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: August 28, 2009 06:30:40 PM WASHINGTON — It wasn’t a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago… Read more »

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s death last week came at a critical time for Massachusetts hospitals, as they battle attempts to strip away as much as $1 billion they get… Read more »

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Health officials have told governments they can keep Tamiflu for longer to help fight the swine flu pandemic. It means stockpiles of the drug that governments started to build up… Read more »

By Meredith Walker A pandemic, or the spread of an infectious disease worldwide or over a large geographical area, can be frightening to anticipate. Not knowing where the disease will… Read more »

Re Surge threat: Anne Carroll’s comment to me below relates to the difficulty that she, I and others have had on occasion in getting the NPSF (the "National Patient Safety… Read more »

Please join the Department of Health and Human Services for a live webcast special, for pregnant women and new moms, on all the latest information about the flu and the… Read more »

The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel’s wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodies lay motionless on low… Read more »

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientific advisers to President Barack Obama may have asked the government to speed up the availability of swine flu vaccines,… Read more »