The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the long-awaited vaccines for the H1N1 "swine" flu virus this afternoon. It is expected to be available in a month at about 90,000 locations nationwide, the Associated Press reported .  [More]

Bathers, beware. A trip to the beach could yield more than a damaging sunburn . According to a recent study, all nine sampled beaches in Washington State contained strains of the virulent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) bacteria--or related methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococci --in the sand or water. [More]