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Put Mandatory Flu Shots For Health-Care Workers On Hold: Specialist

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.25.2013 | Canada Living

TORONTO - Mandatory flu shots for health-care workers should be put on hold until there is a more effective influenza vaccine, a prominent infectious ...

The Flu Shot Didn't Really Work On..

CBC | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada British Columbia

The Fraser Health Authority is working to improve the flu shot’s effectiveness for seniors with a targeted vaccine program. According to...

Does The Flu Vaccine Actually Work?

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Living

TORONTO - Canadians who got a flu shot this year may have cut in half their risk of getting sick enough from flu to require medical care, new data sug...

Where Can I Get A Free Flu Shot?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.10.2013 | Canada Living

Doctors are urging people get the flu shot as cases of the winter illness spike across Canada, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. The...

B.C. Flu Season Hits With A Vengeance

CBC | Posted 03.05.2013 | Canada British Columbia

British Columbians are coming down with influenza earlier than in previous flu seasons, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. ...

Flu Shot Requirement Suspended In B.C.

CP | Terri Theodore, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government has temporarily backed away from a controversial plan to force thousands of provincial health workers to get a flu sho...

Five Ways to Fight Flu Season

Meghan Telpner | Posted 01.02.2013 | Canada Living
Meghan Telpner

Vaccinations are a hot, hot, and very heated topic. We all want to be healthy and we all want to do our best for ourselves and our family to maintain great health throughout the winter season. My best approach is to do all I can to keep the terrain, my body strong and healthy, and focus on prevention strategies.

B.C. Suspends Flu Vaccine

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.27.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VICTORIA - British Columbia's supply of flu vaccine has been reduced by 30 per cent just as the seasonal campaign to get a shot kicks off, but the pro...

5 Things You Need To Know About The Flu Shot

CBC | Posted 12.22.2012 | Canada Living

As flu vaccination campaigns get underway this flu season, provincial and territorial health ministers are promoting flu shots. "By getti...

Are Flu Vaccines Effective?

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2012 | Canada Living

Flu vaccine is not as effective as public health messaging traditionally has claimed, says a new report that suggests overselling of flu shots is gett...

H1N1 Flu Shot Can Mean Healthier Babies

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.22.2012 | Canada Living

TORONTO - Pregnant women in Ontario who received a flu shot during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic were less likely to give birth to a very preterm baby or to ...