Latest Influenza vaccine Stories

SUNCOAST, Fla., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Halloween may have brought us witches & goons & goblins, but it also brought us a glimpse of scary things to come. As flu cases started trickling through in late October, instead of post-New Year, we couldn't have foreseen the current levels we are now witnessing. Instead of the start of season rolling through right now, we are at levels which usually aren't seen until mid-March, and that spells trouble. (Photo:...

AARP Reminds People to Check-in on Elderly Friends and Neighbors During This Season's Influenza Outbreak, Help Others Get Flu Shots CHICAGO, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With Illinois experiencing one of the largest flu outbreaks in the nation, AARP is reminding residents to check in frequently on older family members, friends and neighbors who are particularly susceptible to viruses, and help them get a flu shot if they haven't already been vaccinated this...

U.S. Emergency Rooms Inundated With Flu Patients WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Call in sick! That is the advice from the nation's emergency physicians if you happen to have flu-like symptoms. Doctors suggest it's one of the best ways to help prevent the spread of this year's particularly aggressive national flu outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that at least 40 states are currently dealing with a moderate to...

BLUE BELL, Pa., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) and its development partner VGX International, Inc. (KSE: 011000) will move Inovio's hepatitis C (HCV) DNA vaccine into a phase I/IIa clinical trial by the end of 2013. This advancement is based on outstanding results of a preclinical study which demonstrated for the first time that a multi-antigen SynCon® HCV vaccine can generate robust T-cell responses not only in the blood but, more...

Tamiflu is a drug used to treat the flu; it is not a vaccine OTTAWA, Jan. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is working with Roche Canada and the provincial and territorial health authorities to address a potential temporary shortage of the antiviral flu drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu). The Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada are arranging to immediately release a supply of the drug Tamiflu from the Agency's National Emergency Stockpile System to the manufacturer...

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, have been fired by Goshen Hospital, in Goshen, Indiana, for refusing the flu vaccine. A religious exemption is available, but was denied because these employees did not meet the criteria for religious protection established by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "What gives the EEOC the authority to define what constitutes an acceptable religious belief?" asks...

QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX: MDG; OTCQX: MDCGF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), today announced that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) based on Medicago having met all the technical requirement standards...

WASHINGTON and BLUE BELL, Pa., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) today announced a follow-on collaboration to advance malaria vaccine development and new vaccination delivery technologies. Researchers will test whether a novel vaccine approach that combines genetically engineered DNA with an innovative vaccine delivery technology called electroporation could induce an immune response in humans...

HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Health will offer free influenza vaccines at the 2013 Pennsylvania Farm Show, Jan. 5-11 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Jan. 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. To date, influenza cases have been reported in all Pennsylvania counties with a number of nursing homes experiencing outbreaks. "While the flu made an early appearance this year, we still have not peaked, which means there are still many weeks ahead where we...

There is no medical justification for these policies, which are designed to bully nurses and staff to take the flu vaccine regardless of nurses' medical and/or personal concerns BMC nurse bullied into taking vaccine by this policy has reaction that places her in ICU Hospitals are using this coercive tactic to boost flu vaccination rates to avoid losing Medicare funding instead of implementing truly effective prevention strategies, including safe RN staffing CANTON, Mass., Dec. 20,...