U.S. Clears 4 Mln Experimental Flu Shots
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U.S. health officials, taking  another step to ease the season's flu shot shortage, approved  the importation of up to 4 million flu shot doses from Europe  on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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Health officials said Tuesday they have already diverted about four million doses of the vaccine to areas with the greatest need.
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Description: Because of the shortage of flu vaccine in the United States, 260 people from northern New York crossed the border into Canadain and paid $25 each to get their shots at a private clinic.
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Description: Minnesota is seeing a surplus of flu shots for high-risk patients, some of whom are forgoing the shots so others can have them.
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A day after a leading flu vaccine maker warned that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated, U.S. health officials said Friday they do not expect a flu shot shortage...
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Oct. 18 - Repeated testing of the flu vaccine manufactured at a lab in Britain has ended hopes that some of that vaccine could be salvaged.
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Officials with the Philadelphia Department of Health said Monday that all of the flu vaccine available to it has been given out. Even so, the nation&#39;s top health official issued a surprising statement Monday.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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About 440,000 doses of flu vaccine will be shipped to Florida during the next week, with 160,000 going straight to physicians and the rest to health departments, state health officials said on Friday.
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Health officials yesterday said 22.4 million unshipped doses of flu vaccine will be made available to people who are most at risk of getting the virus.
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The US made a special exception on Tuesday to purchase as many as 4 million doses of flu vaccine not licensed for use in the US. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline influenza
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US health officials, taking another step to ease the season&#39;s flu shot shortage, approved the importation of up to 4 million flu shot doses from Europe on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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Just weeks ahead of flu season US health officials are scrambling to manage a record shortage of influenza vaccine. The US supply was cut in half Tuesday when British regulators abruptly shut down major flu-shot supplier Chiron Corp.
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(National) Nov. 3, 2004 - Two new studies compare a 40 percent and a 20 percent dose of flu vaccine to the full dose and found both worked just as well as the standard in healthy young adults.
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U.S. health regulators finalized guidelines on Thursday to speed development and production of vaccines against bird flu and seasonal strains of influenza.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that none of the flu vaccine quarantined by British officials is safe for use. An FDA spokeswoman says agency personnel have inspected and rejected all 46
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WASHINGTON - The government moved Tuesday to direct scarce remaining flu shots straight to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for the patients who need them most.    But only a fraction of the 22.4 million doses that maker Aventis Pasteur has yet to ship can be diverted to areas with the biggest shortages...