flu shots

With flu season upon us, 46 percent of Americans have received a flu shot, whereas 47 percent said they have not and will not.

North Texas researchers are on the brink of revolutionizing the way we fight the flu. Every year, scientists try to guess which strain of the flu will cause the most people to get sick.  They use that particular flu bug to make a flu vaccine.  That's a hit or miss approach, and despite their best efforts, 40,000 people die of flu every year. But what if there was one flu shot that would protect

Flu vaccines have always been dreaded by those who hate shots, but this year a company called PharmaJet introduced a device that uses “a high-pressure steam of liquid to pierce the skin and deliver the vaccine.” The needle-phobics rejoiced. But now the FDA is saying, Not so fast.