Government must ensure access to flu vaccinations
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Flu season is an annual part of our lives, yet the federal government fails almost every year to make sure the nation has an adequate supply of the vaccine.
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Regional Health Department works to make sure that area&#39;s elderly people living in group settings receive scarce flu shots. A new supply of flu vaccine is finding its way to area nursing homes.
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The Martin County Health Department is offering flu vaccines to the public while supplies last. To be eligible, recipients must fall into one of the high-risk categories: those aged
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Health officials are urging the public to stay patient -- even as some states are reporting a shortage of flu shots for their high-risk populations.
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Two months after an unexpected vaccine shortage led government officials to restrict which groups should get influenza vaccinations, a federal advisory panel recommended yesterday that the restraints be eased.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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State health departments, which are scrambling to ensure that their highest-risk residents get flu shots, can now log on to a secure, private government Web site
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Description: The US government is working to redirect remaining supplies of the flu vaccine as it tries to ensure it reaches people who need it most: children, the elderly and people with chronic diseases.
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Health officials are scurrying to secure flu vaccines so the elderly, who are most vulnerable to influenza, have first access to shots after the nation's supply was cut in half.
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Health officials say there is not enough flu vaccine for the area&#39;s high-risk population because of a nationwide shortage of vaccine.
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A top federal health official, lamenting "a very fragile vaccine production system," urged healthy people Wednesday to defer getting their influenza shots so medication will be available for those most at risk.    "We really need a long-term solution so we don't end up in this year-to-year situation where we don't have a reliable supply," Dr...
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If you&#39;re in a group considered vulnerable to flu, two government physicians have some reassuring words for you. Chances are good you&#39;ll be able to receive a flu shot this year
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Flu vaccines should be easier to get after this week, state health officials announced Tuesday. The bulk of the stateâs vaccine order has arrived, and health
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This season&#39;s flu vaccine shortage may be a useful wake-up call, and it should prompt citizens to demand the production of a sufficient supply of vaccines.
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BANGOR - State health officials have expanded the eligibility guidelines for who should get flu vaccines after determining that vaccines are going unclaimed.
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The UK government is accused of failing to do all it can to prevent a flu pandemic.