FluMist, 1m extra doses, but just for healthy people aged 5 to 49
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FluMist maker, MedImmune Inc, says it will deliver an extra one million doses of its nasal spray. American authorities, desperate for flu vaccines are extremely grateful - their shortfall, however, is still over 40 million doses.
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ATLANTA -- Children as young as 2 can be given a nasal spray flu vaccine, a federal advisory panel said Wednesday.
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People are dying unnecessarily from flu as too many restrictions are placed on key drugs, a leading expert says.
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State public health officials announced yesterday that Massachusetts will receive an additional 262,630 doses of the in-fluenza vaccine, but that only those people considered most at-risk are eligible to get a shot.
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The first head-to-head comparison of the flu shot and the new FluMist inhalable vaccine found shots surprisingly more effective in adults. The study, involving about 1,250 Michigan adults, found that a needle in the arm was 67 percent to 77 percent successful at preventing the flu, depending on the measurement method. The nasal spray was 30 percent to 57 percent effective.
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WASHINGTON -- A federal panel says flu shots should be made available to everyone 50 and older -- not just the elderly, infants or those with chronic health problems.
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New research suggests that giving flu vaccine in a novel way can stretch doses and protect more people, but it didn&#39;t work as well in those over 60 and is too experimental to be used to ease this year&#39;s shortage, experts say.
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By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 14--Maryland will offer 250,000 free doses of FluMist to elementary school kids ages 5 through 11 this year, giving a public relations boost to MedImmune Inc., which makes the needle-free vaccine, as well as helping parents of shot-wary children.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- An increase in flu incidence among children and adults in recent years in Britain revealed trends and problems with an initially successful vaccination program, according to researchers.
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MedImmune Inc. will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray vaccine to the U.S. market this year to help the country cope with a shortage of flu shots, health officials said on Thursday.
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Though the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year started recommending toddlers aged 6 months through 23 months get flu vaccine, researchers from Duke
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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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A Maryland manufacturer will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist vaccine, making a total of 3 million doses of the nasal spray available, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said Thursday, as officials tried to deal with a shortage of flu shots.
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The state Department of Public Health just got in 92,000 additional doses of flu vaccine. On Nov. 16-17, Alabama&#39;s 67 county health departments will make the coveted medicine available free to the public.
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MedImmune has cleared a significant hurdle to revive its long-troubled nasal flu vaccine, announcing yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved FluMist for children 2 to 5 years old.
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MedImmune's FluMist nasal vaccine should be included in the U.S. government's Vaccines for Children program, expanding its distribution to children over the age of 5 and teens, federal advisers said on Thursday.
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Most adults can determine at what age their children should get vaccinated or discern from a label when to take medicines, but they still need help understanding many basic health instructions.