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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal Thursday for significantly increasing access to life-saving AIDS drugs for people in the U.S. and around the world, as he announced a renewed American commitment to ending a pandemic that has killed 30 million people....

(MedPage Today) -- World AIDS Day was marked by increasing confidence that tools needed to halt the devastating pandemic are either available or will soon be ready but also by fear that the will to use those tools is lacking.

(MedPage Today) -- Three more individuals have been infected with an influenza strain that combines parts of a swine-origin influenza A (H3N2) virus and the pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus, the CDC reported.

(MedPage Today) -- The risk of death among children critically ill with the pandemic H1N1 flu was highest among those who were already fragile, but in previously healthy children, only co-infection with Staphylococcus aureus increased the risk of death, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- A single dose of an adjuvanted vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 flu was highly effective at preventing hospital admission for children with confirmed infection, researchers reported.

A major cholera pandemic has spread in at least three waves from a single global source: the Bay of Bengal, a study finds.

(University of Colorado Denver) A new study shows children's hospitals nationwide are not equipped to handle a major surge of patients in the event of a pandemic.

(MedPage Today) -- If there was an elevated risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome after receiving an adjuvanted, monovalent influenza A (H1N1) vaccine during the 2009 pandemic, it wasn't raised by much, a European study showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Mice that become more sociable on a drug that mimics serotonin activity, how a pandemic may taint the water supply, and a possible solution to blood loss on the battlefield highlight this week's installment of lab notes.

(MedPage Today) -- An adjuvanted split-virion vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 flu out-performed a whole-virion vaccine without the adjuvant, researchers reported.