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00:04:34 Meningitis Death: A family is suing the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, claiming it failed to diagnosed a loved one's meningitis. V; Picture of victim. The victim was a student at Penn. V; Students. 00:05:17

00:04:28 Compared with other patients, pregnant women are more likely to suffer serious complications, be hospitalized or even die from the H1N1 virus. That's according to a CDC analysis of this spring's swine flu outbreak...The flu season is coming soon, and Dr. Thomas Bader is counseling his pregnant patients to protect themselves by getting the H1N1 flu shot. Bader leads the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. "You have a situation where you have a theoretical risk that this vaccine might cause problems versus a certainty that this vaccine is going to protect women and their newborn children from a disease that has killed women. For me, I don't think there's a great deal of difficulty in making that calculation." Health officials say this year the seasonal flu shot and the H1N1 vaccine are recommended for pregnant women... 00:07:28

00:06:02 Compared with other patients, pregnant women are more likely to suffer serious complications, be hospitalized or even die from the H1N1 virus. That's according to a CDC analysis of this spring's swine flu outbreak...The flu season is coming soon and Dr. Thomas Bader is counseling his pregnant patients to protect themselves by getting the H1N1 flu shot. Bader leads the division of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania... 00:09:02

00:06:17 Doctors are urging pregnant women to protect themselves from swine flu by getting the H1N1 vaccine as soon as it becomes available, though public health experts are advising pregnant women to avoid the nasal mist vaccine. That type of vaccine is expected to be the first to arrive in Pennsylvania. Dr. Neil Fishman leads infection control efforts at Penn Medicine. "There's the injected vaccine that does not contain any live virus and there's the inhaled vaccine that contains a weak form of the virus. We are recommending that pregnant women only receive the injected vaccine that does not contain any live virus." The nasal mist is the only H1N1 vaccine being released across the country now. Pregnant women are on the priority list for the swine flu shot that state health officials expect to become available in two to four weeks. 00:09:17

00:39:10 TZ; Breast Cancer Awareness: It is Breast Cancer Awareness month and a look at the treatments. SI; Elyse Caplan, Cancer Survivor, says there is new treatments today, new methods of detection and we have choices today, I was concerned and stayed on top of it. SI; Dr. Angela Demichele, UPenn Hospital, says breast cancer is many diseases, we can take a personalized approach to that type of tumor, the treatments are getting better but there are long term effects. 00:43:28