State allows pharmacies to offer more vaccines 
Boston Globe
By Kay Lazar Get ready to see more advertisements in Massachusetts pharmacies for a wide variety of vaccines that consumers will now be able to receive in the stores. A new policy adopted by state health regulators grants pharmacists the authority to ...
New state policy to allow 10 vaccines to be administered at pharmacies WCVB Boston

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Adult Vaccines Available At Health Department 
Wheeling Intelligencer
Administrator Howard Gamble said some doctors already refer their patients to health departments to receive certain vaccines. ''Some adult vaccines are recommended to adults by their primary care physician who may not carry the vaccine due to cost and ...

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AAPS National Biotechnology Conference to highlight innovative vaccines 
Phys.Org (press release)
Vaccination studies from Mercer University (Ga.) headline the groundbreaking research being unveiled at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' (AAPS) National Biotechnology Conference (NBC). The conference takes place Monday, ...

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Vaccine storage: PGI chemists found wanting 
Hindustan Times
Chemists at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) seem to be playing with the lives of children as more than 70% shops on the campus were found not storing children vaccination at the minimum required temperature.

 

Vaccine go-ahead despite objection 
The Australian
The baby, who was only 40 hours old, was suspected of contracting hepatitis B from the mother and required two vaccines within eight hours, or would otherwise have a 4 per cent risk of death in young adulthood. Justice Jean Dalton ultimately ordered ...
Judge ordered parents to vaccinate baby Brisbane Times

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Personal invitations 'boost flu vaccination rates' 
Pulse
By Madlen Davies | 21 May 2012 Using a lead staff member to coordinate the flu campaign, sending personal invitations to eligible patients and having midwives give vaccines to pregnant women can increase a practice's flu vaccination rates, ...

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Health Insider: Infants, toddlers and vaccines 
Detroit Free Press
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that fewer than 1% of American children don't receive any vaccines by the time they're 35 months old. "To best protect infants or toddlers from a number of infectious diseases, parents and families ...

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United States. CDC Targeting Baby Boomers for Mass Vaccination Agenda 
Axis of Logic
Bill Remak, chairman of the California Hepatitis C Task Force, is also supporting the targeting of the Baby Boomer generation for the next "silent epidemic" that can only be answered through mass vaccination. Currently, there is no vaccine specifically ...
CDC: Boomers should all take test for hepatitis C The Keene Sentinel

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Whooping cough elsewhere but not here in 2012 
Richmond Register
Forty-percent of babies catch pertussis from their mothers who haven't received their pertussis adult booster vaccination. Vaccination guidelines for pertussis have recently changed to recommend booster shots every 10 years for adults 65 and older.
The ABCs of whooping cough The Olympian
State sees more people getting pertussis shots Bellingham Herald
Officials Warn: Whooping Cough Cases On The Rise KMVT
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GenVec Appoints Cynthia Collins as President and CEO 
MarketWatch (press release)
GenVec is a biopharmaceutical company using differentiated, proprietary technologies to create superior therapeutics and vaccines. A key component of our strategy is to develop and commercialize our product candidates through collaborations.

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