Dr. Jeremy Silver, MD, Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital, joins Dean Richards for this week’s health update. Dr. Silver begins by discussing a new ...

FluMist is the only nasal flu vaccine, but it is not new. The FDA approved it in 2003 for people 5 to 49 years old before ...

The nasal spray option could encourage more people who have fears of doctors or needles to inoculate themselves against the ...

FLUMIST ® has been approved in the US as the only self-administered influenza vaccine. FLUMIST, a needle-free nasal spray, was approved to be self-administered by adults up to 49 years of age or ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first flu vaccine that does not have to be administered by a ...

Aug. 9, 2024 — A new, two-step flu vaccination strategy that pairs intramuscular injection of a viral vectored flu vaccine with nasal spray administration of a novel attenuated live flu virus ...

For example, data from the state department shows 20.8% of Hoosier children 6 months to 8 years old received an influenza vaccine during the 2022-23 season. However, data for children 1-2 years ...

Flu season is right around the corner, and health experts are urging people to protect themselves with the influenza vaccine and an updated shot against COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Influenza virologists around the world ... H1N1 virus as their starting material for development of a live, attenuated H1N1 vaccine. If the virus in the vaccine wasn’t adequately weakened ...

Scientists in the US have developed a new universal form of influenza vaccine that they say could protect against all strains of the virus – and do away with the annual scramble to match shots ...

Number of influenza vaccine doses dispensed by pharmacies in Germany in 2022, by federal state (vaccine doses per 1,000 people with statutory health insurance) ...

In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended everyone over 6 months old receive both an updated COVID-19 vaccine and influenza vaccine. Novavax has a combination of the ...