Flu vaccine headed to Congress donated to hospitals
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Capitol physician John Eisold decided to send 3,000 doses of the vaccine to the District of Columbia Hospital Association and the District of Columbia Department of
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U.S. health officials turned to a back-up plan for flu season on Wednesday, working to redistribute doses of vaccine after losing half the anticipated supply.
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The Collier County Health Department has received a small supply of flu vaccine and will schedule appointments soon to vaccinate high-risk individuals who are still waiting for the immunization.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $41 million contract to Sanofi Aventis Inc. for flu vaccines. Health Secretary Tommy Thompson said part of the contract was to ensure there are
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Jack Bond's hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn't provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though &#151; for a price: as much as &#36;600 for a vial of 10 flu shots that normally costs around &#36;80.
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday  approved the importation of up to 4 million doses of influenza  vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, bringing the U.S. total to 65  million vaccines for this flu season.
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Burlington County&#39;s share of the more than 340,000 doses of flu vaccine that will be sent to New Jersey by the end of the year will be distributed to private physicians throughout the county, health officials said.
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U.S. health officials said Tuesday that they planned to steer scarce flu vaccine supplies to nursing homes, pediatricians and hospitals as the company that caused the disruptive shortage disclosed it was under ...
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WASHINGTON - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.
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MINNEAPOLIS Dec 13, 2004 - The woman offering flu shots for $20 in the commons area at Augsburg college seemed plausible enough green scrubs, white lab coat, stethoscope that some three dozen people willingly paid their money, rolled up their sleeves
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Bay Area biotech giant Chiron reassured lawmakers Tuesday that there will be enough flu vaccine to meet the nation&#39;s need. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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WASHINGTON - Many of the nation's scarce remaining flu shots will be shipped directly to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for high-risk patients, under a plan negotiated between the government and maker Aventis Pasteur.    The targeted shipments come as health officials struggle to ensure the people who most need flu shots get them, now that the nation's supply of influenza vaccine has been slashed in half...
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U.S. health officials worked to  redistribute flu vaccine to the neediest as worried Americans  took matters into their own hands, heading across borders to  Canada and Mexico to get shots on Friday.
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The County Health Department has received 6,000 more doses of flu vaccine, administrator Becky Barnes said Thursday morning. She said that some of the vaccine came from Erlanger Medical Center and some from UnumProvident.
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved the importation of up to 4 million doses of influenza vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline  , bringing the U.S. total to 65 million vaccines for this flu season.
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The federal government will announce a plan this week to purchase additional flu shots to help relieve the nation&#39;s shortage, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
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Washington ââ The government announced Tuesday that Aventis Pasteur, the influenza vaccine manufacturer, will reallocate its unshipped vaccines to help ease the supply shortage caused