Chief Medical Officer Mobilises GPs To Support Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza Vaccinations (Medical News Today)
Monday, February 8th, 2010Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, is calling on GPs to promote vaccination against the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza to their patients before the flu season begins in Australia . Professor Bishop has enlisted the support of his GP Roundtable, which includes representatives of the AMA, RACGP and the GP Network and he is writing to all GPs in Australia to ask them to …
Don’t give Tamiflu to children, scientists say
Monday, August 10th, 2009Side-effects of Tamiflu outweigh benefits for children with swine flu, study shows Sam Lister TimesOnlineUK August 11, 2009 Most children who catch swine flu should not be given antiviral drugs, scientists said yesterday, because the risks posed by Tamiflu and Relenza to the young outweigh their benefits. Researchers from the University of Oxford called on the Department of Health urgently to reconsider its pandemic strategy after an analysis of four studies published in the Britis
More panic than pandemic
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009By Hugh Pennington My best wishes to those who have had, and will get, swine flu , and my profound sympathies to the families of those who have died from it. To them it is real. But to those responsible for counting cases and designing defences to protect the population, it is a statistical disease. Before the virus was discovered in the early 1930s there was no other way to measure it. Influenza has no unique clinical features. There is no diagnostic rash. Its symptoms can be caused by a
Explosion of UK Pandemic H1N1 Cases Raises Concerns
Monday, July 27th, 2009Recombinomics Commentary 16:02 Produced by Nottingham University’s Division of Primary Care the figures show the rate of infections recorded in GPs’ surgeries across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. You can see from this exactly how bad Tower Hamlets is - and which areas have the lowest rates. The above comments describe the newly released data on the location of pandemic H1N1 cases in the UK. The 49,611 cases have been added to the map of confirmed and probable cases to provide a
Lollipop ladies, social workers and gardeners to distribute Tamiflu as ‘Swine Flu Friends’
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009A Lollipop Lady holds her sign with hidden camera to watch for angry drivers. Daily Mail London Times | Jun 24, 2009 by Jill Sherman, Nicola Woolcock Lollipop ladies, grass cutters and social workers are to double up as “flu friends” to collect Tamiflu prescriptions for vulnerable people who contract swine flu. An emergency meeting of town hall leaders in Birmingham today will discuss new contingency guidelines for local authorities to cope with the pandemic, The Times has learnt
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