Jason Day holds a one-stroke lead over Brandt Snedeker entering Monday’s final round at TPC Boston.

By Letitia Stein, Times Staff Writer Sunday, September 5, 2010 Pharmacist Susan Gordon at a CVS in St. Petersburg urges people to get a flu shot as early as possible. It’s not good to wait and see if a flu outbreak occurs as it takes two weeks for the vaccine to be effective after getting a shot, she says. Even before Labor Day could signal the traditional end of summer, the seasonal flu ...

Healthcare services in all the six government medical colleges and its attached hospitals in the state were paralysed on Sunday as resident doctors launched an indefinite strike earlier in the day.

HONG KONG - A leading virus expert urged health authorities around the world Sunday to stay vigilant even though the recent swine flu pandemic was less deadly than expected, warning that bird flu could spark the next global outbreak.A World Health Organiza...

The Nepal government has suspended the import and use of over 2.7mn pandemrix vaccines manufactured by a global company for protecting people from influenza - A/H1N1, generally known as swine flu.

Bangladesh has put livestock and health officials on high alert after an outbreak of anthrax spread to more districts, infecting 327 people since mid-August, officials said yesterday.

Robert Webster, an influenza expert, says health authorities worldwide need to remain watchful for possible influenza outbreaks, despite swine flu being much less deadly than people had originally feared. Webster, chairman of the virology and molecular biology department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, says that bird flu remains a possible threat and could be ...

A leading virus expert urged health authorities around the world Sunday to stay vigilant even though the recent swine flu pandemic was less deadly than expected, warning that bird flu could spark the next global outbreak.

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Summer temperatures are sweltering, trees are still green and the kids are not back in school yet, but health officials are advising everyone to get their flu shots now.