Military told to stop mandatory anthrax shots
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WASHINGTON -- For the second time in a year, a federal judge on Wednesday ordered the military to stop requiring anthrax vaccines for US military personnel.
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More than a million people put their health at risk every year by not taking up the offer of a flu jab, the Chief Medical Officer warns.
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_ Westchester County will stop administering flu shots after Friday to conserve its waning supply of vaccine for possible outbreaks in hospitals or nursing homes, the county Health Department announced.
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Doctorsâ leaders warned today that the licence suspension of a major flu vaccine supplier would have a âsignificant impactâ on the UKâs immunisation programme.
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Federal health officials yesterday scuttled the largest piece of the Bush administration's two-year program to counter bioterrorism, canceling a $877.5 million contract with VaxGen to develop an anthrax vaccine after the company missed a deadline to begin human testing.
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The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating troops with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled yesterday, saying that the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it
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The Defense Department suspended anthrax vaccinations for the second time in a year after the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that more public input was required on the dangers of the controversial inoculation.
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The federal government ordered a new $877 million anthrax vaccine last month, but the vaccine is still unproven in humans.
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The Army is dismissing the equivalent of almost a battalion of soldiers every year for taking drugs.
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Brazilian health officials stopped the use of Chiron's vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, after a high number of children experienced serious reactions.
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - An Air Force flight engineer  charged in a lawsuit on Thursday that the U.S. military  violated his civil rights when it punished him for complaining  about the dangers of the anthrax vaccine.
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The US Defense Department&#39;s mandatory anthrax vaccination program for its troops is illegal and must stop immediately, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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They can do it for love of God and country - or for the $60. Either way, soldiers vaccinated against anthrax have the opportunity to help future anthrax victims by donating their blood.
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Scientists working for the government have developed standards to measure the accuracy of anthrax detection tests, hoping to steer first responders away from tests that have delivered too many false readings.
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California&#39;s top medical officer, underscoring the gravity of the nation&#39;s sudden shortage of influenza vaccine, ordered all health care providers in the state Friday to stop giving flu shots to healthy adults and to vaccinate only those deemed at highest
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----    Doctor Who Was Focus of Anthrax Probe Loses Job      A doctor who has recently become the focus of federal agents investigating the unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States has lost his job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.      Dr...
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The Scottish Government comes under fire for failing to give priority to the healthcare needs of military personnel.