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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Babies can get H1N1, seasonal flu shots together
Swine flu shots became available Monday for babies aged between 6 months and 1 year, and a health official said that day that babies can get vaccinated for both H1N1 and seasonal flu at the same time.
Working conditions must be improved for older people if governments and companies are to persuade them to continue contributing to economic growth into their old age, according to Swedish and British scientists.
American officials denied a media report yesterday that U.S. beef suppliers have decided to suspend shipment of U.S. beef products with bones to the Taiwan market.
The pigs on a farm in Taitung, eastern Taiwan that were diagnosed with the influenza A (H1N1) virus late last month are recovering without showing new traces of the virus, a Council of Agriculture (COA) official said Monday.
Taiwan will collaborate with Canada to develop a vaccine that will be able to protect Taiwanese people and other Asians from the pneumococcus bacteria that causes pneumonia, an official said Monday.
Hundreds of Afghan and international troops already battling a rising militant insurgency are facing a new fight -- recovering from swine flu, the virus that has left 11 people dead in the country.
Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research center, announced yesterday that vaccinations for streptococcus pneumonia would be developed in five years at the fastest.
The Institute of Nuclear Energy Research under the Cabinet-level Atomic Energy Council is developing a new drug which uses nanotargeted therapy to cure colorectal cancer.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Rejecting U.S. beef is best way to keep safe: experts
The best and safest way for consumers who seek to protect themselves over safety concern about American beef products is to exclude U.S. products from their daily meals, according to medical experts.
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Health officials have urged parents to make reservations for their young children to get vaccinations for the novel A(H1N1) influenza, as the islandwide flu shots for babies between six and 12 months are set to start today.
  
  
  
  
  
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