US weighs easing restrictions on flu vaccine
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.
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Congress yesterday began investigating whether the US Food and Drug Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led to the withdrawal of half the US flu vaccine supply.
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Britain&#39;s decision to suspend the licence of a vaccine factory in Liverpool has left the US short of 50 million flu jabs this winter - and given President Bush a prickly
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US health authorities seeking desperately to overcome a massive shortage of flu vaccine in that country are in discussions with Canada&#39;s major influenza vaccine producer, the company confirmed today.
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Description: Congress will hold hearings to determine how the nation wound up facing a shortage of influenza vaccine. About 40 million doses -- roughly half the anticipated US supply -- were impounded in Great
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U.S. health officials are talking  with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of  securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when  manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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Americans are caught between worries over the safety of the flu vaccine and fears that they will not be able to get it when they need it, a health official told Congress on Tuesday.
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British and American drug regulators met yesterday to see what could be done about the stopped batches of flu vaccines at Chiron&#39;s Liverpool production plant, UK.
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FDA officials on Tuesday are expected to announce whether they will allow four million to five million doses of flu vaccine manufactured in Europe and Canada to be imported for use in the United States, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said Friday in his
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ATLANTA - As concerns rise that tens of thousands of doses of flu shots could go to waste, federal officials were considering changing their advice on who should get the shot.
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Another 1 million doses of a nasal spray influenza vaccine will be available in the United States this year, Bush administration officials said on Thursday as they sought to calm concerns about a flu shot shortage.
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With signs pointing to an early start of the influenza season, it&#39;s looking less likely the US will turn to a Canadian vaccine manufacturer to help ease the shortage south of the border.
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A federal panel recommended Friday that anyone over 50 be allowed to get a flu shot, hoping to avoid widespread waste of the previously sought-after vaccine.
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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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People are lining up by the thousands in the US, worried they won&#39;t get their flu shot this year. The US can&#39;t fill the demand because of a manufacturing problem.
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PORTLAND, Maine - A federal plan to steer shipments of influenza shots to high-need patients could ease MaineÂ´s critical shortage, but the stateÂ´s top public health official worries that it may not be enough.
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US health officials shut the door Friday on the possibility of any flu vaccine from Chiron&#39;s troubled British plant ever reaching the United States this year.