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(MedPage Today) -- Implementing mandatory flu shot policies for healthcare workers more than doubled coverage rates, researchers found.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Hospitals and clinics where fewer than 90% of healthcare workers get an annual flu shot should consider mandating vaccination, according to draft recommendations by a federal advisory committee.

(Muscular Dystrophy Association) Muscular Dystrophy Association has partnered with Walgreens pharmacies to provide flu shots at more than 8,000 locations nationwide for people with neuromuscular diseases.

Families living with neuromuscular diseases should visit MDA's Flu Season Resource Center or call 800-572-1717 to get flu shot vouchers.

The vouchers can be redeemed at Walgreens or Duane Reade pharmacies; or Walgreens Take Care Clinics.

Even if they got one last year, most children should get another dose of the flu vaccine before flu season begins, according to the latest recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

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The FDA has approved the first flu shot to be injected with a tiny needle into a skin layer called the dermis rather than into muscle.

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Ever get a flu shot and still get the flu? If so, there's new hope for flu-free winters in the years to come thanks to a new discovery by researchers who found that a drug called DMXAA, originally developed as anti-tumor agent, enhances the ability of flu vaccines to ward off this deadly virus.

This discovery was published in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

HELSINKI (AP) -- Finnish researchers have found an increased risk of narcolepsy among 4 to 19-year-olds who were given swine flu shots, a government health agency said Tuesday....

Nearly half of Americans plan to use dietary supplements or homeopathic treatments to help ward off influenza this season.

But only about a third of that group plans to also get a flu shot. That's the news from a survey of 1,500 adults conducted in September by the Consumer Reports National Research...

(MedPage Today) -- Reminders can help seniors get their flu shot, but not all methods work, according to a Cochrane review.