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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- If hospitals and clinics can't get 90% of their employees to get an annual flu shot, they should "strongly consider" making the vaccine mandatory, a federal vaccines panel has voted.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month, after it went nearly two years with no reported fatalities....

Scientists who created a more deadly strain of bird flu as part of attempts to prevent the virus's spread, halt work amid fears it could be used by terrorists.

(MedPage Today) -- Scientists involved in controversial influenza research say they'll halt such studies for 60 days to allow discussion of how their findings should be reported.

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Official CDC flu data shows low flu activity throughout the U.S., but Google Flu Trends suggests high flu activity in Kentucky, Nevada, and several U.S. cities.

Google's unofficial data is about 2 weeks ahead of CDC.

Flu jabs can be made more effective by changing the time of day they are given - mornings for men and afternoons for women are best - scientists believe.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government asked scientists Tuesday not to reveal all the details of how to make a version of the deadly bird flu that they created in labs in the U.S. and Europe....

Each year, thousands of Americans die from the flu.

Now a new study suggests that certain drugs that lower cholesterol may also reduce the flu’s severity and may prevent flu deaths.

(MedPage Today) -- The risk of death among children critically ill with the pandemic H1N1 flu was highest among those who were already fragile, but in previously healthy children, only co-infection with Staphylococcus aureus increased the risk of death, researchers reported.