Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.
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Symptoms are often similar to common illnesses like flu and food poisoning.
And, vaccines that can prevent diseases like flu and cancer are underused.
There are always more deaths in winter than other times of year, with causes such as respiratory and circulatory diseases, and infections like flu.
Since patients must inject themselves with the drugs, limiting side effects like depression and flu-like symptoms as well as making the interferon easier to take means more people will stay on their medicine.
Ostroff says it may be because American doctors are counting milder cases, which appear more like a bad flu and less like pneumonia.
When an extensive, compounding factor like the flu comes along, those numbers translate into hospitalizations for many.
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Globally Roche is huge in cancer therapies, but it leads in many tiny markets, too, like avian flu cures.
Angry Birds has spread, like bird flu, from Helsinki to mobile phones to the Web and at this very moment to the Amazon jungle.
The real challenge for pharmaceutical companies is coming up with new blockbuster drugs for chronic disease, not acute outbreaks like swine flu.
It isn't covered by basic Medicare like the flu vaccine, but instead falls under the Medicare drug benefit, with its complicated co-pay system.
Also under consideration is how the military would operate in the case of a pandemic, like bird flu, a senior military official told CNN.
Some animals were prone to infectious diseases like the flu, which Dr. Kenney treated in Shamu by mixing hundreds of antibiotic pills into ground mackerel.
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Both medicines are similar to Avonex, and, like Avonex, they cause flu-like side effects.
"I felt like I had the cold, the flu, something like that " she said.
Except for hospitalized patients, others with flu-like symptoms are not being tested to confirm they have swine flu, since "virtually all of the influenza that's circulating right now in the United States is the 2009 H1N1 strain, " Schuchat said.
You should consult your physician if you feel you may have come down with flu like symptoms.
He developed the classical flu like symptoms withing a week of his return and was in hospital for four days.
Please consult your physician regarding any questions regarding whether you should be taking antiviral medications if you develop flu like symptoms.
Try to avoid close contact if you are ill with the flu or if others around you have flu like symptoms.
Instead, it spreads like any other flu: someone sneezes or coughs, spreading the virus to other mammals (humans included) and onto surfaces.
Instead, it spreads like any other flu -- someone sneezes or coughs, spreading the virus to other mammals (humans included) and onto surfaces.
Currently, veterans' private insurance is only charged when they receive health care from the VA for medical issues that are not related to service injuries, like getting the flu.
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The CDC teams do check tools like the Google Flu Tracker, and Brammer says that while the results don't always match up, Google is close to the CDC's own findings most of the time.
But even with shorter regimens, both drugs will still have to be given with interferon alpha, the two-decade old antiviral drug made by Merck and Roche that causes nasty flu like side-effects, including fever and fatigue.
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In London, a hospital spokesman said a British Airways crew member developed flu-like symptoms during a flight from Mexico City and was tested for swine flu, but the results came back negative.
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