http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Mexico's federal health secretary says swine flu cases in January have surpassed the number for all of 2011, a year when the virus barely appeared worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mexico-health-sec-swine-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:41:50 EST news247246900 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Southampton, University of Oxford and Retroscreeen Virology Ltd have discovered a series of peptides, found on the internal structures of influenza viruses that could lead to the development of a universal vaccine for influenza, one that gives people immunity against all strains of the disease, including seasonal, avian, and swine flu. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-key-peptides-universal-vaccine-influenza.html Medical research Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:26:59 EST news247217211 An outbreak of A(H1N1) swine flu claimed the lives of two people -- 19 and 21 years old -- in Mexico's capital in the first weeks of the year, health authorities said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-die-ah1n1-swine-flu-mexico.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:16:51 EST news246453391 The influenza virus remains a worldwide threat to humans, causing an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States alone. As health care professionals prepare for another flu season, a University of Missouri scientist is studying how two enzymes could be used to stop the virus in its tracks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-mu-scientist-eyeing-enzymes-flu.html Medical research Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:21:38 EST news240747681 Many of the people who died from the new strain of H1N1 influenza that broke out in 2009 were suffering from another infection as well: pneumonia. A new study to be published Tuesday, September 20 in the online journal mBio reveals how the two infections, pandemic influenza and pneumonia, interact to make to make a lethal combination. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-h1n1-pandemic-flu-lungs-opportunities.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:07:26 EST news235674431 A novel breath test, measuring the immune response to the H1N1 flu virus, could help to ease future vaccine shortages by identifying the people who have already been infected with the flu virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-swine-flu-future-vaccination-shortages.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:30:01 EST news229875209 A new University of Maryland-led study finds that 'sex' between the virus responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and a common type of avian flu virus (H9N2) can produce offspring -- new combined flu viruses -- with the potential for creating a new influenza pandemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-well-known-flu-strains-dangerous-progeny.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:36:44 EST news229779385