AP - Doctors don't know yet if it will take one dose or two of vaccine to protect against the new swine flu. Add that to vaccine for the regular winter flu, and it could be a multishot season for a lot of people — or a multisquirt season, for those who choose the FluMist nasal-spray version.

AFP - Twin outbreaks of a flu-like illness and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2,000 villagers, a senior medical official said Monday.

AP - When is swine flu just miserable and when do you need a doctor?

Reuters - Fewer Americans are afraid that they will be unable to pay for healthcare services and fewer expect to postpone medical treatments due to costs, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published on Monday.

AP - As schools around the world reopen, health authorities are bracing for a major spike in swine flu.

The Economist examines how Africa's economic growth is resulting in a demographic transition "that others have already traced: as people get richer, they have fewer children" and poses the question: "Can Africa capitalise on the demographic dividend?" Despite slowed population growth, food and w

Lancet Editorial Examines Health Developments In Afghanistan A Lancet editorial examines Afghanistan's progress in health developments since 2001, in light of the country's recent presidential election.

Jeff Crowley, the director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, this week discussed the government's role in addressing HIV in the first of a series of town hall meetings convening "across the nation as part of the Obama administration's attempt to dialogue with the public to design a national strategy to fight HIV/AIDS," the Southern Voice reports.

KPTH.com profiled the Sioux City, Iowa-based Siouxland Community Health Center, "a one-stop shop" for people living with HIV, which is seeking to raise community awareness of the virus. HIV specialist Thor Swanson said the "CDC is saying some of the more rural states are seeing substantial increases in numbers.

A UK study presented at a conference last weekend found no evidence to support the idea that a daily dose of aspirin protects people who do not have artery or heart disease from developing it in the future any better than a placebo, and experts suggest given the higher risk of internal bleeding