Local teen earns scholarship for her swine flu study

A study on the spread of epidemics has yielded $25,000 for 14-year-old Meredith Lehmann, a scholarship recipient selected by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in Arizona as a 2010 Davidson Fellow.

Teen earns scholarship for flu study

Bishop's junior does research on epidemics By Jenna Jay Contributor A study on the spread of epidemics has yielded $25,000 for 14-year-old Meredith Lehmann, a scholarship recipient selected by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in Arizona as a 2010 Davidson Fellow. Lehmann, a junior at The Bishop's School, used trip data from every county in the continental United States to track ...

Flu shots starting earlier this year in Alabama because of 2009 swine flu outbreak

MONTGOMERY -- The state Department of Health is getting an early jump on the flu season, which claimed the lives of 53 Alabamians in 2009. Dr. Jim McVay, director of health promotion and chronic disease, said today that vaccinations are already beginning at some chain pharmacies around Alabama.

This old house has seen a lot of change

Not many people can say they still live in the house they were born in, but Roy Westlin can.

Postmortem of a pandemic

CHICAGO | When the World Health Organization declared theofficial end earlier this month of the H1N1 influenza pandemic, fewpeople mustered a shrug.