GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency’s assessment of the disease.

It says Tamiflu remains highly effective against the vast majority of H1N1…

By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — There’s no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects, U.S. health officials said Wednesday, in their first report on the safety of the new vaccine.
Since vaccinations began…

By Craig Schneider
Cox Newspapers
ATLANTA — Families and friends gathering this Thanksgiving will share lots of love, good food and maybe a little swine flu.
Swine flu has become a defining illness of 2009, and it may well play a role this…

BY DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
New York Times

Although federal health officials decline to use the word “peaked,” the current wave of swine flu appears to have done so in the United States.

Flu activity is coming down in all regions of the…

BY MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer

LONDON (AP) — Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu _ most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms _ have failed to contain the…

BY MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — It will likely be Thanksgiving before a significant number of Americans who get the swine flu vaccine are protected, health officials said Monday.

Roughly 50 million doses of vaccine are expected to be available…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a massive school closing wouldn’t stop the spread of the swine flu virus, saying vaccinations must be the defense against a menace that one report said could…

BY DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
New York Times

As you pack for college, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told all its students in a recent e-mail message, don’t forget a thermometer, some over-the-counter cold remedies and a week’s worth of…

BY DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
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There have been no serious side effects from the first set of injections of the new swine flu vaccine, federal health officials said Friday in predicting that nearly 200 million doses…

BY GILLIAN WONG
Associated Press Writer

BEIJING (AP) — The World Health Organization’s flu chief urged drug makers on Saturday to donate swine flu vaccines to the world’s poorest countries, which are more vulnerable in the fight against the pandemic.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda…