By Reuters – Fri Sep 18, 2:23 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) – Annual production of H1N1 vaccine will be "substantially less" than the 4.9 billion doses that the World Health… Read more »
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H1N1 vaccine production far less than forecast: WHO
Sept 18 09 DMH Behavioral Health materials re to Pandemics
Sept 22 09 Article On Stockpiling PPE In Hospitals
Sept 3 2009 Massachusetts A.G. TO REVIEW EXECUTIVE, BOARD COMPENSATION AT NON-PROFITS
Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Wednesday plans to shed light on how executives at major nonprofits earn compensation, saying she will begin by homing in on how major Massachusetts health… Read more »
MNA Supports DPH Plan Requiring Health Care Employers to Provide Flu Vaccination to Health Care Workers
MNA Encourages its Members Become Vaccinated CANTON, MA – As the state prepares for the upcoming influenza season, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), the state’s largest union of registered nurses… Read more »
AEDs for Life Campaign
Region 5 would like to help purchase of AEDs at places that desire to purchase an AED and are not mandated by law to have one.
Voices of Support for the New National Nurses Union
What Our Members and Long Term Allies are Saying
: Handwashing and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions
See links below from Emerging Infectious Diseases on studies examining the impact of handwashing on transmitting respiratory diseases and nonpharmaceutical interventions.
From MDPH Screening forms for seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccination
The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) has developed influenza screening forms, which have been reviewed by CDC and which can be used for both seasonal and pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination: 1…. Read more »
Sep 11 09 STATEMENT BY DR. FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NIAID re H1N1 trials
Statement by Dr. Anthony FauciDirector, National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, NIH Regarding Early Results from Clinical Trials of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccines in Healthy Adults We are encouraged… Read more »