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Andy Burham, the health secretary, has refuted claims that giving Tamiflu to children may be more dangerous than leaving them to fight the infection of by themselves...

After prospective mothers were issued with alarming advice to consider putting off getting pregnant until the swine flu pandemic has passed, Andy Burnham, the health secretary, today urged the British public to have confidence in how the NHS was handling the crisis...

A memo leaked to The Times has revealed that senior healthcare officials are concerned that the NHS is not well enough prepared to deal with the expected swine flu explosion over the next few months...

The chief medical officer for the government, Sir Liam Donaldson, has warned the public not to panic-buy anti-viral drugs to treat swine flu on the internet...

In a fairly uncharacteristic move, the European Medicines Agency said that the anti-viral medication Tamiflu could be used as long as two years after the given shelf life expires...