Disease / Illness

The video produced from this experiment will help the district bring home the message that prevention is the most effective way to fight any flu-like illness.

Children and families were given this day to forget about sickness and hardships to celebrate HFC’s success.

The drive is part of Look Good...Feel Better, a free, product-neutral, non-medical program that teaches beauty techniques to women cancer patients.

They're going quickly.

The one in 133 people who suffer from gluten intolerance, a.k.a. celiac disease, will be happy to hear this news.

The series is a 60-mile walk for women and men who want to make a personal difference in the fight against breast cancer.

The use of multiple grants allows the normally-frugal county government to spend $500 on something that will cost it less than $20.

Not everyone is wringing their hands about a shortage of the vaccine. There are millions of people leery about vaccine safety, according to numbers provided by a Harvard School of Public Health study.

Pregnant women, caregivers for children younger than 6 months, and healthcare workers are first in line.

Only children younger than 12 who are being treated are allowed to visit the ER, because of concerns of spreading swine flu.

The injectible form of the vaccine has not been received and it is not known when it will be received.

Oct. 1, 2009 was the extended deadline. For those students who don't have proper vaccinations by then, they can't come to school and will be given unexcused absences.

Flu shots are $20 per person, $14 for children 6 months to 3 years old, and must be paid in cash or by using a credit card.

They've prepared two letters that show they're doing everything they can to ward off the swine flu. Both letters are available in English and Spanish, but only one was actually sent home with the children today.

The two confirmed cases involve men over the age of 50.

$707,000 is earmarked to coordinate planning and distribution of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine and/or anti-virals.

The commissioners court will meet Monday to consider purchasing an unspecified amount of anti-viral drugs.