influenza vaccine
‘Safe and professional’: pharmacist flu vax boosts uptake
High rates of satisfaction and increase in vaccination rates from pharmacy-based flu vax, study finds Community pharmacists across the world have contributed to an increased uptake of immunisations by the …
Time to put talk into action
NSW’s newly elected government is being urged to show its commitment to healthcare by funding pharmacists to administer vaccinations under the National Immunisation Program (NIP) High-risk patients in NSW who …
FluMist Quadrivalent gains tentative approval
TGA approves registration of nasal spray which it says could boost uptake of influenza vaccine While AstraZeneca’s FluMist Quadrivalent influenza virus vaccine nasal spray applicator has been registered on the …
Could we be facing a flu pandemic?
The number of new flu viruses is increasing and could lead to a pandemic, say Australian epidemiologists C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Head of the School of Public Health and …
2017 flu vaccines confirmed
The Federal Government has secured a supply of new vaccines to protect against four strains of influenza virus for this season This year’s quadrivalent influenza vaccines will cover two A …