Swine flu: We’ve got the medicine, say Health

JERSEY has stockpiled enough medicine to treat all Islanders if there is an outbreak of swine flu, Health chiefs have said.
The announcement was made after an emergency meeting at 8 am today, which brought together all those involved with health and emergency planning.
It followed news reports over the weekend that more than 100 people have died in Mexico from the new strain of influenza. So far cases have been noted there and in the USA, primarily in California, Texas and Kansas.
However, a statement released by Jersey’s Medical Officer of Health Dr Rosemary Geller (pictured) said: ‘There have been no confirmed cases in the UK or Jersey, and the World Health Organisation pandemic alert level remains unchanged at three, which means that infections were mainly in animals, with a few humans contracting the disease.27th April, 2009 - 2.59pm

Tourette Syndrome And ADHD Frequently Occur Together

ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2009) — The most disabling aspect of Tourette syndrome is that in 90% of cases, it exists in conjunction with another disorder. The most frequent co-occurring condition in people with Tourette is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), though the cause of this association is uncertain. Having one disorder can be disabling enough, but having two means coping with more than twice the disability.

Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus

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(AP) -- Mexico's health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation's swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous ...

Half a glass of wine a day may boost life expectancy by five years

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Drinking up to half a glass of wine a day may boost life expectancy by five years—at least in men—suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

NASA's ENose can sense brain cancer cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells. The results of the pilot study open up new possibilities for neurosurgeons in the fight against brain cancer.