Flu Shots

  • Hospital Association Urges Nurses Union to Stop H1N1 Scare Tactics
    The California Hospital Association (CHA) is engaged with hospitals and state and local public health officials in a voluntary statewide effort to ensure that all hospital workers -- including registered nurses -- are vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus."Hospital ...More
    October 21, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Survey Finds Women Taking the Risk of Flu More Seriously Than Men
    A new American Red Cross poll shows that while concerns about exposure to the H1N1 influenza virus remain high, women are more likely than men to make extra efforts to cover coughs and sneezes with tissue, wash their hands more carefully and use hand sanitizer more often. ...More
    October 21, 2009
    Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
  • Survey Reveals Hospital Workers Concerned About Flu Vaccines
    Hospital workers are asking the same questions about the safety and necessity of flu vaccines as the general public, according to a survey conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The survey of pharmacy directors at 341 hospitals across the ...More
    October 13, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Pregnant Women Need Flu Shots
    Pregnant women should be sure to get all their flu shots as soon as the vaccines become available this year to protect them against both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 (swine) flu, according to eight leading national maternal and infant health organizations.The eight ...More
    September 24, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Americans Urged to Get Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Early
    With increased influenza activity anticipated this fall, U.S. public health officials and other leading medical experts today urged Americans to be vigilant and get immunized early for protection against seasonal influenza.Seasonal influenza vaccine is already available in ...More
    September 10, 2009
    Posted in News
  • AAN Collaborates with CDC on H1N1 Vaccine Safety Monitoring
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) are requesting neurologists to report any possible new cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following 2009 H1N1 flu vaccination using the CDC and U. S. Food and Drug ...More
    September 1, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Nurses Association Opposes Mandatory Flu Shots for Healthcare Workers
    Speaking last week at a meeting of the New York State Hospital Planning and Review Council, the New York State Nurses Association strongly opposed a regulation that would require every healthcare worker in the state to be immunized for influenza.Despite these objections, ...More
    July 28, 2009
    Posted in News
  • FDA Approves Vaccine for 2009-2010 Seasonal Influenza
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  today announced that it has approved a vaccine for 2009-2010 seasonal influenza in the United States. The seasonal influenza vaccine will not protect against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus that resulted in the declaration of ...More
    July 20, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Infectious Disease Experts Praise CDC’s Response to Flu Outbreak
    Anne Gershon, MD, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), made the following statement today: “In week two of the current H1N1 or 'swine flu' epidemic, we are hearing some Monday-morning quarterbacking about whether it was right to raise ...More
    May 5, 2009
    Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
  • WHO Advances Phase of Swine Flu Pandemic Alert
    The Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) has considered available data on confirmed outbreaks of A/H1N1 swine influenza in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and has considered reports of possible spread to additional countries. On the advice of the ...More
    April 28, 2009
    Posted in News
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