Annual Flu Shot Cuts All-Cause Deaths in Elderly
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NEW YORK  - Compared with a first vaccination, yearly re-vaccination against influenza is associated with a reduction in the annual risk of dying from any cause among individuals 70 years of age or older, Dutch investigators report.
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While officials across the nation are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip their annual flu shot, parents are mulling their options.     The news that British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier carries particular concern in Colorado, which was the epicenter of last year's flu season with 12,885 reported cases and the deaths of 12 children...
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WASHINGTON - Most healthy adults should delay or skip getting flu shots this year so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies, U.S. health officials said Tuesday as they scrambled to manage a surprise - and record - shortage...
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VICTORIA, BC -- In an outing marked by both pleasure and pain, about 130 mostly elderly men and women rode the Victoria Clipper yesterday morning bound for a flu shot in Victoria.
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Atlanta- Two months after a flu vaccine shortage spread alarm across the country, a federal advisory panel recommended Friday that the government ease restrictions on the nation&#39;s supply and make shots available to everyone 50 and older.
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The flu vaccinations that doctors hoped would save the lives of fragile elderly people have apparently failed to lower death rates, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Though a federal advisory committee has recommended easing restrictions on flu vaccine, state and local officials said Saturday that the shots will not be available this week to healthy people between the ages of 50 and 65.
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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 number of seniors vaccinated for  flu and pneumococcal infections rose in most of the United  States last year, but remained below the government's target  for this high-risk group, federal officials said on Thursday.
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Ensuring that nursing home  staff get their flu shots may help prevent potentially deadly  outbreaks among elderly residents, a new study suggests.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display to get a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places...
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A sophisticated statistical analysis finds that influenza vaccination is not as effective at reducing deaths among older Americans as the raw numbers might imply.
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All adults 50 and older in Massachusetts are now eligible for flu shots, state public health officials announced yesterday. The change in state guidelines
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People 50 and older became eligible for flu shots Monday after Clark County health officials revised guidelines for the influenza vaccine.
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Giving care home staff flu jabs can cut the number of illnesses and deaths among resident.
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State health officials further eased restrictions on the flu vaccine yesterday, making the shots available to people 50 and older.
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Local physicians and health-care officials urge Licking County&#39;s healthy adults to forgo a flu vaccine this year so those most at risk -- people 65 or older, babies and patients