St. Louis’ Department of Health has been sending nurses into city parochial schools for decades. They do health screenings and make sure the children have received their immunizations.
Four nurses, all public employees, currently ride a circuit of 36 Catholic and Lutheran…
Mexico City students return to school during the swine flu outbreak in May.
It doesn’t take a severe pandemic — or even much of a disease outbreak — to overwhelm America’s public health system.
That’s an important lesson highlighted in a pair…
City dwellers aren’t preoccupied only with crime, tax deals for developers and historic theaters. Consider a conversation this week on a neighborhood list serve.
It began with a “gross out” alert. A man had allowed his Great Dane to drink from a…
“In the long run, we’re all dead.”
— John Maynard Keynes
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that a swine flu pandemic is likely imminent. “It’s really all of humanity that’s under threat,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, the organization’s director general.
Frightening though…
The three most alarming words in medicine are these: “We don’t know.” They’ve been invoked frequently in connection with an outbreak of swine flu over the last four days.
It began in Mexico, where thousands of people have been sickened and reportedly…
Gov.-elect Jay Nixon has named former state Rep. Margaret Donnelly to head the state Department of Health and Senior Services. We’re big fans of her work in the Legislature. We endorsed her in the Democratic primary for Attorney General.
But Ms.…
HIV infections make headlines. When public health officials said as many as 50 Normandy High School students might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS, they attracted national attention.
It’s too early to know whether there will be an…
“I realize that pandemic planning is an unpleasant — even scary — topic that most of us don’t consider the best luncheon chat. . . . Nevertheless, I am compelled to educate you on the facts.”
Just after noon one Thursday last…
