A spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently stated that even though the number of cases of H1N1 flu is decreasing there still haven’t been enough people who have received the vaccine. Doses of the vaccine are now plentiful so if you were planning on getting the H1N1 flu shot when it was in short supply there are plenty of doses available now and it is not too late.

Many folks take the drug Celebrex for arthritis and other inflammatory type diseases. A medical study published on Dec. 16, 2009 reported that recent testing on dogs found that taking Celebrex and other drugs in that class decreased the effectiveness of low dose aspirin (81 mg) that many people take to help “thin” the blood. It will be important to see if further study shows these findings to be true in humans.  bjmdjd

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