Swine (H1N1) Flu Spreading Worldwide May 29, 2009
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BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) — The A/H1N1 flu continues to spread worldwide, with the number of confirmed cases soaring in Canada and the United States.
Canada added 218 new cases of A/H1N1 flu on Thursday and Friday, bringing the country’s total to 1,336, according to the latest figures from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The outbreak has spread to the sparsely populated northern Territory of Nunavut, which reported its first case on Friday.
Out of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories, nine provinces and two territories have now reported infection cases.
The number of confirmed and suspected human A/H1N1 flu cases has risen to 8,975 in 48 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, with 15 deaths, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Friday.
The CDC anticipated that there will be more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths associated with this new virus in the coming days and weeks.
In Europe, 24 new A/H1N1 flu cases were confirmed Friday within the last 24 hours.
Of the new cases, 12 were confirmed in Britain, six in France, two in Belgium, and one each in Estonia, Germany, Greece and Slovakia, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in its daily situation report.
The total number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus in the European Union and European Free Trade Association countries rose to 480, with 143 cases in Spain and 215 in Britain, 26 each in Italy and France, the ECDC said.
Estonia reported its first confirmed case in a traveler returning from New York.
The flu has spread to 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries as of Friday, with more infection cases and higher death toll.
Dominican Republic confirmed on Friday its first two cases of the flu.
Mexico is still the most affected country which reported 5,029 confirmed cases and 97 deaths.
Mexico City remains the most infected region of the country, with 1,741 infections. The dead accounted for some 1.9 percent of those infected, and about one third of them had suffered from obesity or diabetes before they were sickened.
The Chilean Health Ministry reported on Friday 25 new cases of A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country’s total confirmed infections to 224.….read more here….
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Child Cry and Haiti Endowment Fund Help Feed Children of Haiti May 19, 2009
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Watch the video below and support the cause. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with the average family living off less than $450 per year. Support organizations like ChildCry from NYC and Haiti Endowment Fund from Southern California. These grassroot organizations help feed over 3,000 Haitian kids each and every day while providing education to their beautiful young minds. I recently spent a week in Haiti with Child Cry and Haiti Endowment fund and saw first hand how they impact and help those in need.
Spanish Leader Had Unique Health Issue May 18, 2009
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A new book claims the Spanish dictator, General Francisco Franco, may have had more in common with Adolf Hitler than previously known – having one testicle.
Much like the Nazi leader, Franco’s loss stemmed from an injury he suffered in battle, his doctor’s granddaughter told the historian Jose Maria Zavala.
Franco was wounded in the lower abdomen at El Biutz, near Ceuta, in June 1916.
Biographers have long speculated this affected the reproductive organs of the dictator, who ruled from 1939 to 1975.
However, he did have a daughter, Carmen Franco y Polo, in 1926.
Last year, documents came to light containing an account by a medic who treated Hitler during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Dr Johan Jambor told his priest that Hitler had been injured in the abdomen and had lost a testicle. He said the first question Hitler had asked him was: “Will I be able to have children?”
‘Monorchid’
In his new book, Mr Zavala quotes Dr Ana Puigvert as recalling that her grandfather, Antonio Puigvert, a urologist known to have had Franco as a patient, had told her the dictator had confided in him.
“Franco was monorchid – he had only one testicle,” she said….read more here…
USA, States Sue Wyeth Pharmaceuticals May 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Justice Department and 16 states have joined two whisteblower lawsuits against Wyeth, alleging that the drugmaker has defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to the lawsuits, filed in a federal district court in Massachusetts, Wyeth avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates due to state Medicaid programs — which provide health insurance to low-income families or people with disabilities — for its Protonix Oral and Protonix IV stomach acid drugs.
Medicaid, which is financed by the federal government and states, is qualified to obtain the lowest prices on prescription drugs. Drugmakers such as Wyeth in turn are required to pay rebates to states based on any other discounts they have offered.
But the Justice Department claimed Monday that between 2000 and 2006, “Wyeth offered steep discounts to thousands of hospitals nationwide” through the “Protonix Performance Agreement.”
That pricing arrangement provided up to 94 percent discounts off the Protonix Oral list price and 80 percent off that of Protonix IV.
“Our complaint charges that Wyeth created the Protonix bundle so they could increase their market share at the expense of the Medicaid program — a program to provide the least advantaged Americans with necessary medical care and services,” Assistant Attorney General Tony West said in a statement.…read more here…
Rapper Dolla Shot and Killed in Los Angeles May 18, 2009
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Rapper Dolla was reportedly shot and killed today, Monday, May 18th. While not as popular as Tupac and Notorius B.I.G, He will be missed by his fans.
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[Updated at 6:30 p.m. The man shot at the Beverly Center mall this afternoon was identified as Atlanta-based Dolla, whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, according to his publicist, Sue Vannasing. She said Dolla was shot in the head around 3:10 p.m. while he and another rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, waited in the area after shopping at the popular Westside mall. A friend who was with the rapper at Beverly Center also confirmed his identity to The Times.
About two hours later, Los Angeles police detained a “person of interest” as he attempted to board a plane out of Los Angeles International Airport. The man allegedly drove his silver Mercedes SUV from Beverly Center to the airport. Vannasing said Dolla had gotten into an altercation with other passengers on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, but it's unclear if that was related to the violence.]
[Updated at 5:15 p.m.: Police have arrested one "person of interest" in connection with the shooting but were looking for a second suspect.]
[Updated at 5:40 p.m.: The arrested suspect, who fled from the mall in a silver Mercedes, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport while trying to board a flight. Police said the shooting took place in the valet waiting area of the mall].
