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  1. New Guidelines Emphasize Timely Teen Vaccination

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    Most children aged 6 months to 8 years old should now recieve two doses of the flu vaccine, even if they received the H1N1 vaccine last year. Pertussis vaccine: Children 7-10 not previously vaccinated against pertussis -- also known as whooping cough

  2. Ear Piercing Leads to Paralysis for Teen Dancer

    Wed, 10 Nov 2010

    set in motion by surgery, trauma or pregnancy. But the condition may be best-known as a side effect for hundreds of swine flu vaccine recipients in 1976. Although Guillain-Barre remains a documented risk of vaccinations, it produces one extra case for

  3. World Health Organization Scientists Linked to Swine Flu Vaccine Makers

    Fri, 4 Jun 2010

    Scientists who advised the World Health Organization on its influenza policies and recommendations—including the decision to proclaim the so-called swine flu a "pandemic" had close ties to companies that manufacture vaccines and antiviral medicines like Tamiflu, a fact that WHO did not publicly

  4. WHO Says H1N1 Flu Still a Pandemic

    Thu, 3 Jun 2010

    thrown away, donated or reused to make more vaccines later. "It was very difficult to get people to come out [for the H1N1 vaccine ] once they had herd immunity," said Imperato. "Especially those parts of the country that had been affected in the first

  5. Millions of Swine Flu Vaccine Doses May Be Trashed

    Thu, 1 Apr 2010

    With the first season of H1N1 swine flu vaccinations winding down , government officials are encouraging continued vigilance but vaccination are also revealing that as many as 71 million doses of unused vaccine may expire in the coming months. A CDC briefing on how many people had received

  6. Georgia H1N1 Cases Spike; CDC Blames Low Vaccination Rates

    Tue, 30 Mar 2010

    message that vaccination remains an important preventive measure. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin said the supply of H1N1 vaccine last week reached 24 million doses "but many Americans are still vulnerable to the H1N1 (flu) because they haven't gotten

News

  1. How Did School Staffers Get Insulin Instead of Flu Vaccine?

    Tue, 19 Jan 2010

    When staff members at a Wellesley, Mass., school went to the nurse last Friday, they expected to be injected with a vaccine for the H1N1 flu . What they received instead was a shot of insulin resulting in a bout with low blood sugar. While the staffers seem to be suffering no long-term damage from

  2. 55 Million Americans Sickened by Swine Flu So Far

    Fri, 15 Jan 2010

    saved. That's why it's so critical for everyone to get vaccinated. "While over 60 million people have received the H1N1 vaccine , over three-fifths of Americans have not yet gotten it," she added. Most states have opened up their H1N1 swine flu

  3. H1N1 Shots Widely Available, but Do People Want Them?

    Mon, 11 Jan 2010

    There is an abundant supply now of H1N1 vaccine . It's out there. Whether you go heard from people who were convinced the H1N1 vaccine was a ploy to make money. H1N1 and either. "There is no profit for the H1N1 vaccine . The federal [government] purchased

  4. As Swine Flu Wanes, Don't Be Fooled

    Thu, 7 Jan 2010

    widespread swine flu activity are Delaware, Maine, New Jersey and Virginia, she said. So far, 136 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine have been made available. "The vaccine should be pretty much available almost anywhere you live," Schuchat said. Most

  5. Insect Cells Instead of Eggs for Swine Flu Vaccine ?

    Wed, 6 Jan 2010

    WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A method that uses insect cell-based technology produces vaccines for swine flu faster than traditional egg-based vaccine production, say Austrian scientists. Using this new approach, the researchers created recombinant influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) in

  6. New Childhood Vaccines Schedules Released

    Mon, 4 Jan 2010

    get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to protect them against genital warts, and all children should receive the H1N1 vaccine to guard against swine flu, according to updated guidelines on childhood and teen vaccines. The new vaccine schedules

  7. Swine Flu May Be Rewriting the Flu-Season Script

    Thu, 24 Dec 2009

    seasonal flu, it isn't going to hurt you. But probably it is not as important as in previous years." Siegel believes the H1N1 vaccine is more important now than a seasonal flu shot, because there could be another large outbreak of the swine flu. Dr. Thomas

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Videos

  1. Doubt Over Swine Flu Vaccine

    Thu, 6 Aug 2009

    Health officials race to test an H1N1 vaccine before the flu season starts.

  2. What Is In The Swine Flu Vaccine ?

    Tue, 8 Sep 2009

    These Swine Flu vaccine . This two different times that nasal spray and injectable vaccine. The injectable vaccine is. The virus itself which has been

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  3. Risks Of The Swine Flu Vaccine For Kids?

    Mon, 31 Aug 2009

    Dr. Edwards answers the question: 'Risks Of The Swine Flu Vaccine For Kids?'

  4. Short on the Swine Flu Vaccination

    Mon, 17 Aug 2009

    Federal officials now say that only about a third of the Swine Flu vaccine in the country was counting on will be available by mid than we anticipated. There are five companies making the Swine Flu vaccine for the US market health officials say some of the delayed

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    Americans. Federal officials now say that only about a third of the Swine Flu vaccine in the country was counting on will be available by mid October. That's when the mass vaccination campaign. Is scheduled to Begin.
    and our country than we anticipated. There are five companies making the Swine Flu vaccine for the US market health officials say some of the delayed finishing up production of seasonal flu vaccine. But the biggest problem
  5. Ask 'GMA Health'

    Thu, 10 Sep 2009

    people need to know about the H1N1. Or Swine Flu vaccine is it's not even available yet re not candidates. But this the H1N1 . Vaccine in this country. That good news is the companies that's developing the H1N1 vaccine has developed a breakthrough new technique

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    the most important thing people need to know about the H1N1. Or Swine Flu vaccine is it's not even available yet. And won't be till mid October so we don't know what the risks are going to
  6. Tetanus Boosters

    Mon, 13 Jun 2011

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  7. Slow Production of H1N1 Vaccine

    Fri, 23 Oct 2009

    Dr. Besser discusses the growing frustration over the flu vaccine shortage.

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