Vaccine stretching may be an option for future shortages ...
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TORONTO (CP) - A single dose of flu vaccine could be stretched to protect as many as five people if split into smaller doses and delivered directly into the skin rather than into the muscle of the upper arm, two studies rushed to print Wednesday suggest.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The crisis in the nation&#39;s flu vaccine supply has led to renewed calls to modernize a half-century-old manufacturing system that relies on millions of chicken eggs and a lot of educated guesswork.
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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.
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Oct. 8, 2004 -- Government health officials and vaccine manufacturers warn that they can do little to ease the expected widespread flu shot shortages announced earlier this week.
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US health officials said Friday they do not expect a flu-shot shortage in the wake of a leading flu vaccine maker&#39;s announcement that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated.
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When British authorities shut down Chiron Corp.&#39;s manufacturing facility last week, it reaffirmed Tony Holler&#39;s belief that there is room for another supplier of flu vaccine.
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OTTAWA - Canada could use its surplus of flu vaccine to help the US with its shortage, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said Monday.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is exploring ways to sell its Fluarix flu vaccine in the United States, where supplies have run short this season after Chiron Corp lost a year&#39;s production to contamination.
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Fearing that a flu vaccine shortage may turn into a glut, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday more people should get shots so the vaccines don't go to waste.
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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, urging people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#39;s limited number of vaccines.
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[World News]: New York, Oct 26 : In a measure of the ridiculous length to which Americans are going in the face of a shortage of flu shots in the country, a ferry company in Washington state is offering a sort of vaccine tourism to the neighbouring
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With flu season around the corner, local providers of influenza vaccines learned recently that supplies will likely have to be rationed because a major producer
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This year&#39;s shortage of vaccine starkly highlights the need for new, faster ways to produce vaccines and for incentives that will encourage more production.
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The flu shot shortage offers some food for thought for investors.
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Fearing that a flu vaccine shortage  may turn into a glut, the Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention said on Wednesday more people should get shots so  the vaccines don't go to waste.
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The government is considering making commitments to buy a certain number of flu shots each year to help bolster supplies and avoid severe shortages like the current one.
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Some have explained the flu vaccine shortage by saying that the vaccines business holds little allure, but vaccines, it turns out, can make for good business.