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A new scientific discovery has the potential to pave the way to future medications that could fight the flu and a vaccine that would not need to be changed yearly because it could target a broad range of flu strains.

A new study suggests pregnant women who get a flu shot a month before delivery will help to prevent most cases of influenza from developing during the first six months of their babies' lives.

U.S. health officials announced Tuesday that they have approved vaccines for the 2008-09 flu season that include new strains of the virus most likely to circulate this season.

A CDC expert panel now urges all children ages six months to 18 be vaccinated against flu or influenza in the upcoming 2009-2010 flu season.  A panel of CDC vaccine advisers voted unanimously today that all children from six months to age 18 have a flu shot. Up to seven million additional children could be vaccinated as a result. Now what? The vaccines have a host of their own problems sending mindful parents to do their own research. 

The state of New Jersey will become the first in the country next year to mandate the flu vaccine for children, this despite the fact that the influenza vaccine still contains the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

A pandemic of worldwide influenza is overdue scientists believe.  During an influenza outbreak or widespread pandemic, everyday life can be disrupted including schools, government, food delivery and medical services as widespread illness and even death grips a population. The influenza

From May through September 2001, influenza A(H1N1), A(H3N2), and B viruses have continued to circulate worldwide and the majority of viruses are well matched to the components of the 2001-02 influenza vaccine. The optimal time period for persons at increased risk for influenza-related complications to receive an annual

Relenza (zanamivir), an anti-influenza product delivered through an inhaler, has been reported to be difficult to use by the elderly population. The maker of Relenza, Glaxosmithkline PLC, recently reported that many of the elderly patients who attempt to use the inhaler are unable to do so. Dr. Paul Diggory, on s

Doctors were pleased with the decrease in the number of influenza cases this year, which dropped from 5.6% last year to 4.1% percent this year. The flu can be a very serious illness, killing almost 20,000 Americans and hospitalizing 114,000 people each year. Symptoms may include respiratory inflammation, fever, muscu

Scientists are very worried about the possibility of a new influenza pandemic. It is believed by many medical health professionals that an influenza epidemic will return and infect not just the United States, but the rest of the world, as well. Much like the Spanish flu in 1918 that killed 40 million people worldwide,

According to studies conducted in Japan, vaccinating school-age children protects the elderly from influenza. School-age children make up the largest group of people that spread the disease. During the mid-1970s to the 1980s, the Japanese government vaccinated all children in school. During this period, the death ra

According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 20,000 Americans die each year from influenza and another 110,000 people are hospitalized for the illness. Previous studies have shown that the flu vaccine can be very beneficial to patients in prevention of the illness. A new study that targets elderly