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AFP - Doctors at government hospitals in Nigeria’s main city agreed Monday to end a week-old pay strike after authorities met their demands, a spokesman for the movement said Monday.

Reuters - A coalition of U.S. healthcare groups pledged on Monday to help President Barack Obama rein in the growth in costs and save about $2 trillion over the next decade, a step the administration hopes will build support to reform the system this year.

Reuters - The new H1N1 flu virus shows no signs of sustained person-to-person spread outside of North America where the infection first emerged, a top World Health Organization official said Monday.

Reuters - The United States now has 2,600 cases of the new H1N1 influenza across 43 states and Washington, D.C., the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.

Reuters - Thai scientists who infected piglets with the new H1N1 virus spreading around the world said on Monday the strain caused flu-like symptoms in the animals before disappearing, just like many of the human cases.

AFP - A first case of swine flu was confirmed in mainland China on Monday, underlining the outbreak’s global spread, as the United States soared ahead of Mexico in terms of infections.

AP - President Barack Obama on Monday portrayed the health care industry’s promise to cut $2 trillion in costs over 10 years as “a watershed event” in the long search for a solution to the millions of uninsured.

AP - Millions of children, many wearing surgical masks, returned to scrubbed and disinfected classrooms Monday after a nationwide shutdown to curb the spread of swine flu in Mexico. As the worldwide toll of deaths linked to the illness rose to 61, pressure increased for massive production of generic versions of expensive antiviral drugs.

Reuters - Most working-age women in the United States have too little health coverage, and often forgo needed care because of cost, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Reuters - Women with long-standing hypothyroidism, commonly referred to as an “underactive thyroid,” are at increased risk of liver cancer, the results of a new study suggest. By contrast, hypothyroidism is not significantly associated with this malignancy in men.