This flu season is expected to run smoother than last year’s when fears of catching swine flu spiked demand for the vaccine.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced that 65% of people overall achieved a sustained viral response (SVR or viral cure) with a telaprevir-based regimen in the pivotal Phase 3 REALIZE study, as compared to 17% of people in the control arm who received pegylated-interferon and ribavirin alone.

Personalized post cards or phone calls can be effective in encouraging more seniors to get their annual flu shots, according to a new review of evidence. Professional facilitators are also successful at urging providers to perform a suite of preventive services, including flu shots for seniors.

On Saturday September 4 at 4.35am Christchurch residents awoke to the largest earthquake to hit the country in over 70 years.

A 60 Minutes investigation has unmasked a senior Defence Force official as a CV cheat and liar.

New Zealand is bidding to take part in an extraordinary project to explore the beginnings of time, the origins of the universe and whether there is anyone out there.

The American Academy of Pediatrics plans to call for all health workers to get flu vaccinations, saying unvaccinated doctors, nurses and other medical staffers pose a threat to patients.

Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients' personal physicians, as Americans increasingly make busy emergency departments, specialists or outpatient care departments their first point of contact for treatment of new health problems or a flare up of a chronic condition like asthma or diabetes.

Flu shot season is here, and for the first time, health leaders are encouraging nearly everyone to get vaccinated.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has no plan to deal with front-line health-care workers who refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu, a scenario that some infectious-disease experts believe could accelerate the spread of the flu pandemic in the coming months.