Study Finds More Sent to Hospitals with Flu
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Influenza is sending more people to the hospital in the United States each year and the flu season appears to be getting longer, a government study said on Tuesday.
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Half of all U.S. states would run out of hospital beds within the first two weeks of a moderate flu pandemic and 47 states would run out if a bad one hit, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
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If avoiding the misery of the flu isn&#39;t enough to send you scurrying to your doctor&#39;s office as soon as the annual flu shot becomes available, here&#39;s another good reason -- it might just keep you out of the hospital.
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Sept. 23, 2004 -- More American children need to get the flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The federal government's voluminous plans for dealing with pandemic flu do not adequately account for the overwhelming strain an outbreak would place on hospitals and public health systems trying to cope with millions of seriously ill Americans, some public health experts and local health officials...
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NEW YORK - If there was an increase in the number of people who took the day off from work or stayed home from school Tuesday, it may not have been the flu that kept them at home and on the couch.
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State and local health departments will soon receive additional doses of the much-needed flu vaccine, but health officials say the new shipments won&#39;t be enough to meet the needs of all high-risk patients.
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Nearly 2,000 lawmakers and staffers have gotten flu shots by the Capitol's doctors, who urged them to be vaccinated--even those not in high-risk groups--because of their routine contact with children and older people.
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Federal health officials have created a Web site for state and local health officials to find out where, when and how many flu doses have been and will be sent to their regions.
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The state Department of Health is receiving 370,000 more doses of flu vaccine for people at high risk for flu. The state will start shipping out the vaccine today and Wednesday to county
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Too many Americans aren't getting vaccinated for the flu, including those most at risk -- seniors, children and health-care workers -- U.S. health officials warned Wednesday.
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This year&#39;s flu season has claimed its first casualties in the New York City area. Four senior citizens died and 13 others were hospitalized after a recent outbreak in a Queens nursing home.
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A strain of a common bug with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest it may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of disease in parts of the United
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More than 200,000 people are hospitalized each year because of flu-related illnesses, far more than the 114,000 annual hospitalizations previously estimated, researchers at the
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The region&#39;s largest hospital alliance is worried that it won&#39;t have enough flu shots to provide to employees and patients for the upcoming flu season.
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NEW YORK  - During last year's influenza season, the number of infants and toddlers in the US who were vaccinated against the flu varied by tenfold between different locations, according to a new report.
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Infections acquired in hospitals, which take a heavy toll on patients, arise mainly from poor hygiene in hospital procedures, not from how sick patients were when they were admitted, according to three new studies.