Money Earmarked for Kids&#39; Vaccines Being Used for Adults
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The US government is diverting money budgeted for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Norway yesterday pledged more than $1 billion to vaccinate millions of children against diseases that often kill, but are easily preventable.
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Even as the vaccine protects children, questions are arising about whether its use will increase the incidence of a related disease, shingles, in adults.
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A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections
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Now that a hard-to-get meningitis vaccine is more plentiful, health experts recommended Wednesday that the shots be given to all children ages 11-18.
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This season&#39;s flu vaccine shortage may be a useful wake-up call, and it should prompt citizens to demand the production of a sufficient supply of vaccines.
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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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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With much of Maine&#39;s supply of influenza vaccine suddenly in jeopardy, state health officials are urging healthy adults not to get flu shots so that enough medication
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Druggist is charging $50 a dose to help Americans deal with the severe vaccine shortage in the States. By Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. - MedImmune Inc.&#39;s FluMist vaccine will be included in the federal Vaccines for Children program next year, meaning eligible children can get the nasal spray for free.
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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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WASHINGTON - Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half actually get one, federal health officials warned Thursday as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.    A record 100 million doses of flu vaccine will be available this year, the vast majority of it shipped to doctors' offices by the end of October, said Dr...
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British finance minister Gordon Brown will propose Wednesday giving &#36;1.8 billion over the next 15 years to a campaign to get life-saving vaccines to millions of children in poor countries.
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U.S. health officials on  Friday approved the first vaccine to prevent shingles, a  painful disease characterized by a blistering rash that affects  nearly 1 million, mostly older adults every year.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - A new long-acting vaccine to treat meningitis could prevent the often fatal disease from infecting the highest risk group of young adults by 70 percent, said a Food and Drug official on Wednesday.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found...