Archive for the ‘Flu / SARS’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
US scientists have discovered a possible reason why the flu virus is seasonal and tends to infect people mostly in the winter. It has a jacket that melts in the summer causing the virus to die off, and stays hard in the winter, until it enters a host where it ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A panel of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends all American children over 6 months be vaccinated against seasonal flu, starting as soon as possible but perhaps more feasibly in the 2008-09 flu season because most doctors will have ordered all their flu ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
As the flu season gets into full swing across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that while this year's shots do not match all of the major circulating types of flu, they are still worth having because as a minimum, they lessen the severity ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
As the 2007-2008 flu season approaches, the National Association of Child Care Professionals (NACCP), together with Families Fighting Flu (FFF), is launching a nationwide campaign made possible by an educational grant from sanofi pasteur to educate parents about the seriousness of influenza in children and increase influenza vaccination rates in ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) will offer flu vaccines at all stores in the U.S. Now through February 2008, or while supplies last, flu vaccines will be administered at stores. Most stores will give vaccines on a walk-in basis at in-store pharmacies, while others will conduct scheduled flu shot clinics.
"The beginning ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
The recent withdrawal of over-the-counter cold medicines for children under 2 leaves many pediatricians and parents relieved, but the question remains: What should distressed parents do when their baby is sick on the eve of yet another flu season?
"First and foremost, we want parents to know that no matter what, ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
As the flu season descends on several U.S. states, the Health Department is warning New Yorkers that influenza is a deadly disease and urging all New Yorkers to get a flu shot. The Health Department announced today that flu shots are now available free of charge at all of its ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
The Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition (CIIC) has launched a Web site, http://www.PreventChildhoodInfluenza.org, to support its newly issued report that calls for improved childhood influenza immunization rates in the United States. The Coalition, made up by 25 of the nation's leading public health, medical, patient ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Determining the structure of a protein called hemagglutinin on the surface of influenza B is giving researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston clues as to what kinds of mutations could spark the next flu pandemic.
In an online report in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
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