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Recent articles

• This week's LCDPH flu fact

• Study: Flu shot better than nasal spray in adults

• Drugmaker reports shortage of kids' Tamiflu

• A world 1st: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

• Obesity could become top cancer cause

• Doubling chemo dose helped leukemia patients

• Local health departments lose 8,000 more jobs in 1st half of 2009
  Logan County Department of Public Health also forced to cut jobs

• FDA: 'limited' benefit with tamper-proof OxyContin

• Med students crossing the line on the Internet

• Study: Flu viruses can spark heart attacks

• Study tries to detect flu before the 1st sneeze

• Gov't: 1 swine flu shot enough for older kids

• US orders more -- lots more -- swine flu vaccine

• Sanofi to deliver swine flu vaccine in October

• Prostate cancer treatment may spark heart problems

• HOPE Mobile schedule for October

• Researchers: Aspirin cuts colon cancer risk

• Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia

• CDC: 1st swine flu vaccines may be nasal spray

• WHO: Pandemic flu vaccine production to fall short

• Birth control could help combat climate change

• FDA approves new HIV test from Abbott Laboratories

• Seniors largely spared of swine flu

• US to share 10 percent of swine flu vaccine globally

• Australia to begin vaccinating against swine flu

• Merck, British charity to jointly develop vaccines

• CDC: 1 in 3 teen girls got cervical cancer vaccine

• Panama: More tainted medicine in 1,155 bottles

• Hope to get a swine flu shot at work? Not likely

• Study: 8 million Americans consider suicide

• Fight obesity? Add sales tax to soda tab

• FDA requires strong amputation warning on sedative

• New dentist joins HOPE Mobile

• FDA approves new swine flu vaccine

• Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops

• Early flu season -- what you need to know

• Exercise can extend survival even in 'oldest old'

• Showerheads may harbor bacteria dangerous to some

• Sebelius: Swine flu shots may start early October

• Study: New drug fights flu as well as Tamiflu does

• Dangerous staph germs found at West Coast beaches

• 50 million new patients? More primary docs a must

• Flu season comes early; most cases swine variety

• G-7, Mexico: Risk groups to get 1st swine flu meds

• Studies: 1 dose of swine flu vaccine works

• Did drug-resistant swine flu spread at NC camp?

For reference

• HOPE Mobile schedule for October

• Health department announces flu information line

• HOPE Mobile schedule for September

• H1N1 flu and back-to-school

• College students with flu advised to avoid others

• Health department information on H1N1

• Back to school: It pays to be educated about immunizations

• School and athletic physicals available on HOPE Mobile

• July food inspection scores

• Swine flu fact sheet

• Up-to-date CDC information on H1N1 flu (swine flu)

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