News Source: The Independent
| about 1 month ago
Swine flu vaccinations have been given to 500 children in a trial to determine their effectiveness. The study involves 600 children aged six months to 12 years and began a week ago in Bristol, Oxford, Southampton, Exeter and London. It will test the...
News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 month ago
Department of Health (DOH) Minister Yaung Chih-liang said yesterday that children under the age of 9 and below third grade in elementary school will be given a two-dose vaccine against influenza A(H1N1), better-known as swine flu. The Cabinet-level...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Minister of Health Yaung Chih-liang is proposing what he calls betel nut tax to improve public health and increase Taiwan's tax revenue. Yaung broached his idea of a new tax or surtax to lawmakers on the floor of the Legislative Yuan yesterday.
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Children nine years of age or under will be required to be administered two doses of the A(H1N1) swine flu vaccine once it is made available, health officials said yesterday. Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang was cited as saying that the two million...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Nearly three out of four residents expect the seasonal flu shot to provide sufficient protection against the swine flu, revealed a survey that was released by health authorities yesterday. According to the public opinion poll conducted by Gallup on...