Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Nov. 15

San Antonio Express-News, on the swine flu vaccine:

Health and Human Services...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — In a Nov. 18 story about the vaccine industry, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a government official quoted in the story. The director of the federal...

LONDON (AP) — Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by...

HAVANA (AP) — China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Federal health experts said Wednesday an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers,...

Weak home building a drag on economic recovery

WASHINGTON — The budding economic recovery isn't getting much help from the home-building industry, which normally creates jobs and...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine.

Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because...

DALLAS (AP) — Immigrant girls and women will no longer have to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus to get their green cards.

Starting Dec. 14, the HPV, or human...

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG said Tuesday a U.S. clinical study suggests that half a dose of its swine flu vaccine may be sufficient to protect people from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is splitting off its holdings in infant formula maker Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. in order to focus on its biopharmaceutical business.

The...

NEW YORK (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Nabi Biopharmaceuticals said Monday they will work together to develop vaccines to help smokers give up the habit, in a deal that could be worth...

BEIJING (AP) — Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge.

President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that "there are lots of fat people" in...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese health ministry says 2 reported dead after receiving swine flu vaccine.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Louisiana federal judge sued a House impeachment task force Friday, contending the panel is making the case for his ouster by using testimony he gave under a promise of...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item — garlic.

In Serbia, garlic has...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's health authorities have ordered three million swine flu vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG worth an estimated euro24 million ($36...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's health authorities have ordered three million swine flu vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG worth an estimated €24 million ($36...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates. But that doesn't mean swine flu...

The following recalls have been announced:

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GMP Herbal Products Inc. is recalling Pai You Guo, a weight loss dietary supplement, because it contains drug ingredients not...