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A 14-year-old high school girl who died this week after contracting the H1N1 swine flu suffered from a serious heart condition that 'strongly contributed' to her death, DuPage County officials said. Michelle Fahle, a freshman at Naperville North High school, died suddenly on Thursday. The DuPage County Health Department confirmed Friday that she had contracted the H1N1 virus, but on Saturday, the DuPage County Coroner's office said she had an 'undiagnosed, progressive defect in the heart' which made her health vulnerable before she got the flu.

'Cloves are totally a gateway cigarette, that's what I used to smoke in high school,' said Bell, who now smokes regular cigarettes. 'My friends and I would buy a pack of cloves and sit around and all smoke a pack.' The sweet-smelling flavored cigarettes that leave a cooling sensation in your mouth have long been popular among teens and young adults, so the FDA's ban has left many teenagers troubled. 'My girlfriend absolutely loves cloves and she was so upset,' said Bell, of Scottsdale Ariz., who attends Boston College. 'I know one kid who even bought six packs [before the ban] just to have because he loves them so much.' Health care officials have long complained that flavored cigarettes lure young people into a lifetime of nicotine addiction. Two weeks ago, the FDA banned clove and all fruit-flavored cigarettes as part of a national effort to reduce teen smoking in the U.S. 'These flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular smokers,' Dr.

DuPage County officials said Friday that a 14-year-old high school freshman who died suddenly on Thursday had the H1N1 flu virus. The DuPage County Health Department said Michelle Fahle tested positive for H1N1, but they could not confirm whether it was actually the cause of her death.

Researchers have launched an online registry that ultimately aims to help children with a severe type of epilepsy that strikes in the first months of life. It is believed to be the first worldwide registry of children with infantile spasms and is a collaboration between Washington University school of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chicago.

The division of addiction psychiatry at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson medical school has championed efforts to reduce tobacco use among mental health patients, a group estimated to consume nearly half of all cigarettes in the United States. Those efforts have received national recognition by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which granted a Silver Achievement Award to the CHOICES program Thursday at a ceremony in new york City.

D'Angelo Greene sat down in the school cafeteria in Landover on Friday morning to do his public health duty. A nurse put a plastic sprayer up one of D'Angelo's nostrils, then the other. Into each went 0.1 milliliter of Influenza A H1N1 vaccine.

THE number of children suffering with flu symptoms at a Lothians high school has increased again.

Researchers from Boston University school of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a tool, the 'Getting-Out-of-Bed (GoB) measure' to assess motivation and life outlook in older adults. The study, which appears in the October issue of the /iJournal of Psychosocial Oncology, shows that the tool has the potential to be an easy-to-use measure to bolster motivation and thus, improve health behaviors and outcomes in the growing population of older adults.