Health authorities in India Saturday heaved a sigh of relief as the sixth and last sample of a London-based NRI, suspected to be suffering from swine flu, was found negative like that of the other five, an official said here."We have received th ..

Screening of passengers for the swine flu virus continued at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here Saturday even as five suspected cases have so far tested negative."The screening is being done on passengers arriving at the interna ..

President Pratibha Patil, who has voiced concern over the rising incidents of ragging, has assured the parents of 19-year-old Aman Kachru who died March 8 due to ragging by seniors in a Himachal Pradesh college that universities across the country wo ..

Nepal's Catholic church has become embroiled in the row between St Xavier's, the country's oldest and best-known school run by Jesuit fathers, and the teachers' union over the dismissal of a staff member.Father Anthony Amulyanath Shar ..

More than 400 schools in the US have been closed as the swine flu virus spread to 19 states, but President Barack Obama voiced hope the deadly disease will run its course "like ordinary flus".Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ..

A drug widely used in the treatment of Type-2 diabetes may trigger low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users.Pancreatitis simply means inflammation of the pancreas. Located in the upper part of ..

The number of confirmed human swine flu cases in the US has risen to 109, health officials said.Nearly 300 schools across the country have been closed in view of the swine flu threat.The states with confirmed swine flu cases are Arizona, California,  ..

An official who took part in the US President Barak Obama's recent trip to Mexico is believed to have caught swine flu and passed it on to his family, a media report said.The unnamed man, a Department of Energy employee, "came down with flu- ..

Health ministers from 27 European Union (EU) nations have failed to reach an agreement on a French call to temporarily ban all EU flights to Mexico in view of the deadly swine flu outbreak in that country.They however stressed on a coordinated approa ..

The global financial meltdown may have forced the Yale University in US to slash its overall endowment from $24 billion to $17. 5 billion and reduce its workforce by 300 people, but that has not affected the university's initiatives in India, a s ..

Swine flu is still swine flu in New Zealand, despite a World Health Organisation ruling that the disease should now officially be called "influenza A (H1N1)"."I've got no intention of changing how I'm referring to it," Hea ..

Twenty-seven students from a New Zealand college orchestra and four teachers are being treated as suspected swine flu patients after some developed flu-like symptoms following a trip to North America, health officials said Friday.Lindisfarne College  ..

With 15 news cases of swine flu taking the nation's total to 34, Canadian authorities have said they will start an awareness campaign Friday to stem the spread of the virus.Of the 15 new cases reported Thursday, five were in British Columbia prov ..

While countries debate whether it's wise to travel to Mexico or the US because of swine flu outbreaks, US Vice President Joe Biden Thursday provoked an uproar with the most drastic suggestion: just stop flying.Biden told the NBC Today Show that h ..

European Union (EU) member states will share their stocks of anti-viral medicines if one of their number is hard hit by the new swine flu virus, EU health ministers decided Thursday.But the ministers rejected a French proposal to ban all flights from ..

The World Health Organization (WHO) updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of what it is now calling only the H1N1 influenza, to 257, including eight deaths, but reiterated that there was no need for panic.The largest spike came fr ..

The international police organization Interpol warned Thursday that criminals may use fears over the swine flu outbreak to sell fake medicines via the internet."It has been seen time and time again that following a global threat or natural disas ..

The European Union is not planning to ban travel to Mexico because of the outbreak of swine flu there, diplomatic sources said Thursday at an emergency meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg.Individual member states have the right to bring in t ..

Hollywood action hero-turned-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency following the swine flu epidemic currently gripping America.More than 10 cases of the killer flu have been reported in California and Schwarzeneg ..

US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total has risen to 109, up from 91 Wednesday.Richard Besser, acting director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said six people have been hospitalised since the disease out ..