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Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light

ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into...

Universal Flu Vaccine Coming Soon? Researchers Are Getting Close

Every year, the flu shot is something of a gamble. Scientists have to figure out what the most active strains are, then create a vaccine around them. Sometimes, there are shortages and delays in shipping and manufacturing, which can keep people from getting vaccinated. But a new study gives us hope that those...

Trish Keenan, Lead Singer of Broadcast, Dead at 42: A Musical Tribute [VIDEOS]

Trish Keenan, who was the lead singer of the electronic-music band Broadcast, has died from complications related to pneumonia. She was 42. Broadcast formed in the mid-'90s in England. The group's first album, "The Noise Made by People," was released in 2000; the group followed up with 2003's "Ha-Ha Sound" and 2005's...

Opinion: Autism Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg

"A deliberate fraud." That's what the British Medical Journal, one of the world's most prestigious periodicals, has written of the study that kicked off the current anti-vaccine movement. It's "clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare," it said in a heavily documented...

Is Swine Flu Poised for a British Invasion of the US?

Here it comes again. An outbreak of H1N1 flu has hospitalized 302 people in England and accounted for 14 deaths in recent weeks, the Guardian reported. Making matters worse, many British citizens, including health workers, have yet to receive flu shots this year after the frenzy of attention paid to H1N1 subsided at the...

Background on flu

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals.

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