State officials call for more relaxed vaccine guidelines
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State health authorities are recommending looser guidelines for the flu vaccine, extending the injections to people down to age 50 and to certain children ages 2 to 18.
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State health officials are asking physicians and other licensed vaccine providers to submit requests for about 200,000 doses of influenza vaccine allotted to Arizona by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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State officials are asking local health departments with flu vaccine to share 10 percent of it with other departments that have little or none because of the national shortage.
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County health officials received promised flu vaccine from the state this week and now can offer shot clinics to seniors and others at risk of complications from influenza.
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The CDC&#39;s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Friday will meet to consider easing its recommendations on who should receive flu vaccinations as a new survey finds that only 34.8% of high-risk residents were vaccinated and as health officials
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US Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, says the flu vaccine shortage is not a health crisis. At a press conference in Florida Monday, Thompson told seniors to stop waiting in long lines to get a shot.
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ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday it is shifting responsibility to distribute most of the country&#39;s remaining doses of flu vaccine to state health departments, which will decide who in the high-risk groups will get
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ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday it is shifting responsibility to distribute most of the country&#39;s remaining doses of flu vaccine to state health departments, which will decide who in the high-risk groups will get
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Local public health officials are asking private clinics and doctors offices to postpone giving the flu vaccine until they have a better idea of how much will be available this flu season.
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New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
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The pressure on doctors to give flu shots only to those who need them most just got a little stronger. Erie County&#39;s top health official issued a commissioner&#39;s order Wednesday that directs
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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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U.S. health officials urged states  on Thursday to investigate reports of price gouging by  companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and  to prosecute offenders.
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The shortage of flu vaccine in the United States is &quot;not a health crisis,&quot; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, and he urged people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#39;s limited number of vaccines.
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation&#39;s supply of flu vaccine.
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With roughly 38,000 more doses of flu vaccine flowing into the state, officials are now pleading with those at risk of becoming seriously ill from the flu to get a shot.
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U.S. officials who just weeks ago worried that the nation's flu shot supply would run short said on Friday they are expanding the group of people who should get the vaccine so that doses do not go to waste.