Flu season — or at least the traditional flu season — still is a month away. But four Jefferson County schools are taking an unexpected holiday this week, closed by outbreaks of swine flu.
That’s left doctors and public health officials…
Suppose you were asked for a list of the game-changers in modern medicine — treatments that saved the most lives and had the greatest health impact.
You might name organ transplants or drugs to fight cancer and AIDS. Maybe if you…
No Missouri politician can afford to appear soft on drug use. But what if the drug use includes people seeking relief from colds and allergies?
Last week, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster vowed to support a misguided proposal that would make…
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…
A woman wears a mask at the Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo celebration Saturday. She said she was being careful because of what is called the swine flu. | Christian Gooden, Post-Dispatch
Mexicans and Mexican-Americans usually spend today toasting Cinco de Mayo with fiestas,…
“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…
