By: Dave Corby 04 December 2010 On the 26th January 2010 Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a medical expert specialising in epidemiology and former Chair of the Sub-committee on Health of the European Parliamentary Assembly, made a statement about the handling of the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic to the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the […]
Workers suspended for refusing flu shots
By: Jo Ciavaglia 19 November 2010 But Abington Health System officials say more employees are getting vaccinated every day under the threat of losing their jobs in two weeks. The Abington Health System this week suspended without pay more than four dozen employees for failing to get a seasonal flu shot. The suspended employees […]
NIH Experts Describe Influenza Vaccines of the Future
By: AS Fauchi and L Lambert 17 November 2010 In a review article appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, examine research under way to address the limitations of currently available influenza vaccines and develop more […]
Rice scientists use formula to identify next strain of flu
By: Todd Ackerman 16 November 2010 Rice University scientists have developed a mathematical model that predicts the flu strain the upcoming season’s vaccine should cover more accurately and quickly than the current system. In a retrospective study published this week, the new model did better at predicting the upcoming season’s circulating flu strains […]
Flu vaccine only effective for select groups
By: Mark Lemstra 10 November 2010 This is the first in a four-column series on influenza. The first will discuss the ineffectiveness of immunization for the flu in most populations. The second column will discuss the great influenza epidemic of 1918 and the lessons we still have not learned. The third column will discuss last […]
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