Swampscott hepatitis A case spurs vaccinations
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By Paysha Stockton, Globe Correspondent | September 20, 2004. A waitress at a Bertucci&#39;s Brick Oven Pizzeria in Swampscott has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, prompting the local board of health to order vaccinations for all the restaurant&#39;s employees.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit Thursday against flu vaccine suppliers ASAP Meds Inc., doing business as Meds-Stat, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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The Food and Drug Administration said it was notifying health-care providers and consumers about reports of some 28 cases of infants suffering a serious bowel condition after receiving Merck & Co's new vaccine against the rotavirus.
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Jefferson County residents who qualify for flu shots will have at least one more opportunity to get vaccinated, with shots being given Sunday afternoon at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
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Karen Wilcox was bewildered and concerned when a rash appeared on her daughter Chloe&#39;s torso. The bumps resembled chicken pox, the Sandy mother thought, but her daughter had received a vaccination for the contagious disease as a baby.
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Hepatitis B vaccination can generate an adequate immune response in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and this response is unaffected by the use of immune-suppressing drugs, new research suggests.
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A statewide survey for flu vaccine found that Alabama health-care providers got about one-fourth of the flu vaccine they ordered and many high-risk Alabamians will have to do without their annual shots.
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Texas researchers will begin clinical trials of an experimental vaccine against the deadly toxin ricin, a biological agent that can be tested only in select labs.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansans in high-risk groups for the flu might still be able to get shots, officials said Tuesday. The state Health Department announced that it will soon receive an additional 80,000 doses of the influenza vaccine.
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A dramaâs plot links autism with childhood vaccinations.
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DRYDEN -- In the wake of the national flu vaccine shortage, hundreds of Tompkins County residents lined up Wednesday morning outside the Armory on Hanshaw Road in hopes of receiving one of the 1,500 available doses through the county Health Department.
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The National Institutes of Health is launching a human trial to test the safety of an experimental vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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While most of the country is in the midst of an influenza vaccine shortage, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued priorities for who should get immunized this flu
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KELOWNA, BC (CP) - Health officials in the BC Interior issued a public warning Wednesday after a restaurant worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A. Health officials say hundreds of people may have to be vaccinated
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A review into contaminated polio vaccine has been ordered by Australia&#39;s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott, after an investigation showed at least two batches were released for use after testing positive for contamination, according to a report in The
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A Sports Illustrated bash for its annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A.