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Under CDC plan, four regional sites to ship swine flu vaccines to 90,000 immunization "providers."

Panel estimates twice the number of deaths than in average flu season; urges faster vaccine access.

No safety issues have come up yet in clinical trials of the swine flu vaccine, health officials announced today. Clinical trials of the vaccine in adults began recently, and so far, there have been "no red flags" of ...

As the U.S. prepares for a possible second wave of H1N1 or swine flu, as well as for the annual scourge of seasonal flu and colds, a new report from Consumer Reports helps households prepare for, prevent, and treat cold and flu symptoms safely and effectively, including recommendations for what to pack in an emergency kit for a flu outbreak. The report is available in the September 2009 issue of Consumer Reports and online at www.ConsumerReportsHealth.org.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people in the company's first human tests, a spokesman said Wednesday.

The federal government guidelines would place less emphasis on school closings in response to swine flu epidemic.

More than half of children taking antiviral drug Tamiflu suffer side-effects such as nausea, insomnia and nightmares, UK researchers have said.

A federal advisory committee issued sweeping guidelines Wednesday for a vaccination campaign against the pandemic swine flu strain, identifying more than half the U.S. population as targets for the first round of vaccinations.

Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new ...

Vaccines should be ready within months for H1N1 flu, which could mutate and become more severe in winter, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said ...