Frist Defends Flu Shots for Congress
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday that lawmakers on Capitol Hill who received flu shots in his office were either following federal guidelines or their own doctors' recommendations.
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US Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., echoed President Bushâs condemnation of independent political advertisements during a stop at the Bush-Cheney â04 campaign office on Monday.
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Congressional leaders announced the donation just days after it was revealed that anyone with Capitol credentials could get flu shots.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.
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Here&#39;s something to consider on your way to the medicine cabinet this morning: One of the nation&#39;s leading drug reviewers with the Food and Drug Administration told a congressional hearing last week that consumers are &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against
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WASHINGTON - A top federal health official, lamenting "a very fragile vaccine production system," urged healthy people Wednesday to defer getting their influenza shots so medication will be available for those most at risk.   "We really need a long-term solution so we don't end up in this year-to-year situation where we don't have a reliable supply," Dr...
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TORONTO -- Canada&#39;s chief public health officer defended yesterday the right of the country&#39;s flu vaccine manufacturer to sell surplus supply to the United States.
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Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul on Sunday defended his efforts in Congress to bring home money to his Texas district, despite his long-held aversion to big government and congressional votes to reign in federal spending.
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Congressional Democrats attacked U.S. drug regulators on Wednesday for failing to track the Chiron Corp. plant where flu shots were found to be contaminated, leading to the current shortage, after problems first arose in 2003.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 5 -- A woman who allegedly sold flu shots, then fled when her credentials were questioned, was giving people the real vaccine and was trying to raise money for her daughter&#39;s school fundraiser, her ex-husband said.
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A flu vaccination shortage that caused lines of anxious elderly people outside drug stores and clinics across America prompted a fierce pre-election exchange of accusations between Democrats and Republicans on Monday.
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An FBI raid on the Capitol Hill  office of a congressman under investigation in a bribery  scandal did not violate the constitutional separation of  powers, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Sunday.
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The attending physician for US lawmakers, their staffs and others who work at the US Capitol received additional doses of the flu vaccine and is donating them to city medical officials, top US Republican lawmakers said on Friday.
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A top Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called on Merck &amp; Co. Inc. to answer questions about its withdrawn drug Vioxx at the first congressional hearing on Nov.
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Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are criticizing the FDA for not adequately overseeing a British plant making flu vaccine for sale in the United States.
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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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US Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, says the flu vaccine shortage is not a health crisis. At a press conference in Florida Monday, Thompson told seniors to stop waiting in long lines to get a shot.