Puerto Rico reports 1st swine flu case – Americas AP – MiamiHerald.com

Puerto Rico reported its first case of the swine flu on Monday, making it only the second Caribbean island to confirm the virus’s presence.
Lab tests confirmed that a 39-year-old Puerto Rican man had the disease, Gov. Luis Fortuno told a news conference. The man, whom authorities did not identify, apparently became infected during a recent [...]

Daily aspirin in your forties ‘can cut risk of cancer later in life’

Taking aspirin in your mid-forties could be the “best time” to stop the disease progressing into full-blown cancer, he said. The drug could already be protecting hundreds of thousands of people who currently regularly take it to prevent a heart attack or stroke.
Scientists believe that it works by blocking the effects of proteins in the [...]

Most Americans in areas with unhealthy air

Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday.
The public-health group ranked the pollution levels of U.S. cities and counties based on air quality measurements that state and [...]

Travel advisory warns of severe respiratory illness in Mexico

A severe respiratory illness appears to have infected 137 people in south and central areas of Mexico, with cases concentrated in Mexico City and three other areas, including 20 deaths, the Public Health Agency of Canada said.
In the United States, health officials in Texas and California were scrambling this week to deal with a new [...]