Swine Flu Vaccination

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is urging its staff to take their flu shots amid fresh warnings that low vaccination rates among health professionals could lead to vulnerable patients getting infected and dying. The NHS's employers, health trade

A new strain of H1N1 infected a boy in Indiana and a girl in Pennsylvania in early September. Dr. John K. Lee, a family medicine physician with South Sixth Medical Associates in Springfield, Ill., answered the following questions about how you can protect

October marks the beginning of flu season, and once again, health care professionals are exhorting people to get a flu shot. Microbiologist John Tudor, Ph.D., professor of biology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, agrees that it's time to roll

Pregnant women and the obese will be hit hardest by this winter's flu outbreak and the expected strain is 'capable of causing some very nasty illnesses', an expert warned today.

Various organizations have recently published policy statements in favor of such mandatory inoculations for all workers in health care facilities.