Alabama men have shorter lives

Alabama men have some of the highest mortality rates in the nation, according to World Life Expectancy.

Flu vaccine could save thousands of hospital visits

More than 17,000 hospital admissions might have been avoided last year if the patients had been vaccinated, according to figures issued by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Kimberly-Clark Professional* Launches The Healthy Schools Project* To Partner with Educators in Helping Reduce the ...

ROSWELL, Ga., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of Americans go to school or college every day. Unfortunately, their germs go right along with them to an environment where physical closeness and group ...

FLU NEWS SCAN: Antivirals for flu, flu financial burden, workshop on H5N1 research

US hospital antiviral prescribing for flu dropped in year after pandemic Antiviral use among hospitalized patients dropped significantly nationwide during the 2010-11 flu season compared with during the pandemic the year before, US researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases . Using statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Influenza Surveillance Network, they ...

Las Vegas Sands Reports All-Time Industry Record $1.07 Billion Adjusted Property EBITDA Quarter

LAS VEGAS, NV-- - Las Vegas Sands Corp. In the First Quarter of 2012 Compared to the First Quarter of 2011:Adjusted Property EBITDA Increases Achieved by Every Property in Global Portfolio Net Revenue ...