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...hopes to offer the controversial vaccine to “high-risk” patientsthose over 65 or with chronic illnesses late in October, and to the rest of the University community two or three weeks afterwards. In line with federal policy, the clinic will urge all but children to roll up their sleeves for the vaccine...
...last night Stephen C. Schoenbaum, assistant professor of Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and one of the study’s directors, said, “I would prefer to immunize young adults under 25 only if they have some chronic illness...
...Indeed, the state's data suggest that chronic underlying conditions are among the main risk factors for developing H1N1 disease severe enough to require hospital care. In both young and old patients who were hospitalized for swine flu (741 cases in total), ailments that complicate the flu were common: some 60% of children and 72% of adults had conditions including high blood pressure, high cholesterol and gastrointestinal disease. (See how to prevent illness...
...H1N1. Being overweight can increase sleep apnea and reduce lung function, for example, both of which can impair a heavier person's ability to overcome a respiratory infection like influenza. Among the 156 obese adults in Louie's sample, 66% had underlying diseases known to complicate the flu, including chronic lung disease, heart disease and diabetes. (See the Top 5 swine...
...health crisis in America. As I've said, we don't have a health care crisis in the country - we have a health crisis. Our health care system is not nearly as broken as [our] health. Eighty percent of the $2.4 trillion [in U.S. health care spending] is on chronic disease. When you consider that what the Congress is attempting to address is more about covering people, not changing the culture, they're missing the point...