Swine Flu - H1N1 influenza

Swine flu is the common name given to a relatively new strain of influenza (flu) that caused a flu pandemic in 2009-2010. It is also referred to as H1N1 influenza (because it is the H1N1 strain of...

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Co-infections not associated with worse outcomes during H1N1 pandemic

A study at Rhode Island Hospital has found that despite complications, patients co-infected with the pandemic 2009-2010 influenza A H1N1 (pH1N1) and a second respiratory virus were not associated with...

RI Hospital: Co-infections not associated with worse outcomes during H1N1 pandemic

(Lifespan) A study at Rhode Island Hospital has found that despite complications, patients co-infected with the pandemic 2009-2010 influenza A H1N1 and a second respiratory virus were not associated w...

H1N1 Flu Vaccine Safe for Expectant Moms, Offspring: Study

By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) -- Although hastily created in response to the pandemic threat posed by the H1N1 flu virus, the vaccine for H1N1 i...

Inovio pan-strain flu vaccine protects against all H1N1 varieties

Results of an interim analysis from Inovio Pharmaceuticals' ongoing Phase I trial of SynCon, its universal H1N1 influenza vaccine, have shown that the product generated protective immune responses aga...

Respiratory Complications More Likely Following Use Of Drugs To Immobilize Patients During Surgery

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have found that medications currently used to immobilize patients during surgery can increase the risk of postoperative respiratory complications. Thei...

[Articles] Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling study

Our estimate of respiratory and cardiovascular mortality associated with the 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 was 15 times higher than reported laboratory-confirmed deaths. Although no estimates of sCFR...

Concern grows over H1N1 outbreak in Bolivia

An epidemic of H1N1 flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives in Bolivia, health officials said Tuesday.

Research Team Explores H1N1 Outbreak

Just the mention of H1N1 can conjure up images of long lines of people waiting to be vaccinated, news reports of the severity of the pandemic and the count of the number of people who perished from th...

Complications of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in pregnant women in The Netherlands: a national cohort study.

Please cite this paper as: Bogers et al. (2011) Complications of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in pregnant women in The Netherlands: a national cohort study. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viru...

H1N1-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

The worldwide 2009-2010 pandemic of novel H1N1 influenza reminds us that influenza can still be a lethal disease. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been the most de...

The successful use of extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation in the management of a pregnant woman with severe H1N1 2009 influenza complicated by pneumonitis and adult respiratory distress syndrome.

We report a case of H1N1 2009 influenza A, in a previously fit woman at 24weeks of gestation, who presented atypically with abdominal pain. The infection was complicated by severe respiratory failure...

MRI in H1N1 Encephalitis.

Novel influenza A (H1N1) virus has been largely associated with respiratory complications. The exact frequency of neurological complications is not known, but are more common in children. There are ve...

Use of extracorporeal life support to support patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to H1N1/2009 influenza and other respiratory infections.

A large proportion of critically ill H1N1/2009 patients with respiratory failure subsequently developed ARDS and, to date, about 400 patients receiving extracorporeal life support (ECLS) have been acc...