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EDWARDSVILLE — Wyoming Valley Health Care System’s Diabetes Management & Nutrition Center and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute and Stroke Program will host a Community Health and Wellness Fair from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday at the Thomas P. Saxton Medical Pavilion.

NEW YORK — Last spring thousands o

NEW YORK — Last spring thousands of travelers canceled trips to Mexico after a swine flu outbreak there emptied beaches and resorts.

Federal WIC program overhauled

CASSELBERRY, Fla. — When Shannon Green arrived at the tiny Al’s Food Store in Casselberry, Fla., to exchange her checks from a government program that provides food to women and their children on a recent Monday, she was surprised to see some new choices.

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In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only - 11/06/2009

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. Here, and across most of Europe, vaccine to protect against the pandemic flu is

Poll: One-third able to get swine flu vaccine - 11/06/2009

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. That's true even for people who are at extra risk for severe complications and should be at the front of the line. The numbers are about the same for parents who tried to get the vaccine fo

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine - 11/05/2009

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. Hospitals, universities and the Federal Reserve Bank also got doses of the vaccine for employees wh

New gene therapy halts 2 boys' rare brain disease - 11/05/2009

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. The experiment marks the first time researchers have tried that