Local Trio Gets Honor for Vaccine: Children's Hospital to Bestow Its Gold Medal
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By Dawn Fallik, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 11--Katie Erb was sick, and it wasn't a pretty sight. The 4-year-old was diagnosed with rotavirus and she was the sickest her mother had ever seen her.
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Health officials are hoping college students will add one more thing to their back-to-school list: a meningitis vaccination.
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By plane and by car, US citizens arrive for the hottest commodity in Vancouver, BC&#39;s tourist trade: flu vaccine. VANCOUVER, BC -- When Dave Fish and Karen Fletcher drove more than 100 miles to get here Saturday
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Nevada County health officials will be looking for flu vaccine today from the private sector so that enough will be available for children and seniors when flu season starts next month.
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By David Klepper, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jan. 31--TOPEKA -- Kansas has joined the growing list of states considering a plan to require girls to be vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Three groups of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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The Department of Health is considering introducing a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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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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LONG BEACH The city&#39;s health department will have 3,350 doses of flu vaccine available, but only for a select group of high-risk patients who must make appointments beginning today, the department announced Tuesday.
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That&#39;s what some nurses are thinking after vaccination sites around the Twin Cities are being left with extra doses of vaccine, despite the nationwide shortage.
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Florida Health Secretary John Agwunobi says the vaccine for children will go to counties with the most unmet needs first. It&#39;s expected to arrive in local health departments the first part of next week.
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Help is on the way for Fredericksburg-area residents at risk of complications from the flu. The Rappahannock Area Health District expects to receive enough flu vaccine within the next month to inoculate about 2,000 people.
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At the Walgreens flu shot clinic, the honor system is in place.    If you tell nurses there you have a chronic heart problem, you can get a shot...
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A once-scarce vaccine that protects  against a range of infections including meningitis is back in  supply and small children should get four doses, the U.S.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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The case before the US federal court of claims in Washington will reignite the controversy over the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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MedImmune Inc.'s FluMist vaccine will be included in the federal Vaccines for Children program next year, meaning eligible children can get the nasal spray for free.
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AURORA, Colo. -- Police in Aurora are investigating the theft of $6,000 worth of flu vaccine from a pediatric clinic. The vaccine, which arrived on Friday, disappeared from a medical office in the 1400 block