H1N1 in poor nations: Should the U.S. help?

As the virus begins to establish itself in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, a UN report was leaked that says that unless rich countries step up to pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines, the swine flu could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world’s poorest nations.

The announcement comes as officials inside the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN's public health body, said they feared they would not be able to raise half the amount needed because of the global downturn.

On the move against Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s… Have you heard of it? Perhaps your grandmother has been diagnosed but you have no idea what that means.

Does no insurance equal a death sentence?

If a person is uninsured, “it means you’re at mortal risk,” says Dr. David Himmelstein, an associate professor medicine at Harvard Medical School. Himmelstein is one of the researchers involved in a study released in the American Journal of Public Health this week that found that 45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance.

The data they collected from ore than 9,000 people aged 17 to 64, taken from 1986 to 2000, revealed that:

H1N1: It never left

Cases of H1N1 flu seem to be tapering off at schools like Washington State University, where it is suspected of sickening more than 2,000 students, but health officials say the virus is here to stay and in fact never went away.

"It’s good the student population is becoming generally healthier at WSU – but it doesn’t mean they can let their guard down," Joe Quimby, senior press officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told FOXNews.com on Tuesday."And that same message goes for any other university, college, public school, city or town."