More than 22 million doses of swine flu vaccine are available now, and most Americans should soon find it easier to get their dose, U.S. health officials said today. ...more

October 27, 2009

Q. My 91 year old mother is a survivor of the 1918-1919 pandemic. As long as she can remember, she has never had another flu since. Nor have I contacted a flu to the best of my knowledge. Is it possible for the children of the pandemic survivors to have built up an immunity to flu viruses? ...more

October 27, 2009

The World Health Organization rushed to convene an emergency meeting Saturday to develop a response to the "pandemic potential" of a new swine flu virus that has sparked a deadly outbreak in Mexico and spread to disparate parts of the United States. ...more

April 26, 2009

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed two cases of swine flu in the state. ...more

April 25, 2009

Wondering if his publisher liked the manuscript of "Les Miserables," Victor Hugo sent a terse note: "?" His publisher replied as tersely: "!" That was the nation's response to Barack Obama's inaugural address, even though - or perhaps because - one of his themes, delicately implied, was that Americans do not just have a problem, they are a problem. ...more

January 21, 2009

My colleagues have made me president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. ...more

September 18, 2008

Fears of bird flu are receding, and sales of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu have slumped. Now its maker is offering a deal to U.S. employers: Pay an annual fee and reserve enough to protect every worker if a new superflu strikes. ...more

June 27, 2008

Relief may be on the way for all those youngsters trembling at the thought of another needle jab. One day the flu vaccine may simply be placed under the tongue. ...more

January 29, 2008

Regarding Pat Buchanan's column headlined "National Interest Comes First." In the Nov. 24 column, where he quoted Condi Rice,"for 60 years my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East region and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people." This is high fallutin' horse patootie. Closer to the truth in the Middle East is Pat's observation that "anti-Americanism there is pandemic." ...more

November 29, 2007

Regarding an article in the Tampa Tribune titled "Vaccination Prioritized for the flu." It is about who will receive the flu shots if a super-strain of flu triggers the next pandemic. The government has pregnant women and babies first, government workers next, and way down at the bottom are seniors (at the end of the line.) It was only a matter of time until the government figured a solution to fix Social Security, let the old die! ...more

October 26, 2007