Influenza

Can now give flu vaccine to younger children and renew prescriptions for up to one year.

Pharmacies appear to have cemented their position as the most common location for influenza vaccinations, based on recently released results to an annual survey of Canadians by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).

I enjoy working on Christmas. There's usually great food, as people bring potluck feasts. We have fun in that comrades in adversity, esprit de corps way that a lot of health professionals secretly adore. We non-Christian docs get to have the undying gratitude of our colleagues as we put in a few hours of useful labour before going out to the latest Star Wars movie and eating Chinese food.

Just over one in 10 patients hospitalized for influenza experience serious complications. The nature of those complications differs by age group, according to a recent study.

Shoulder injury caused by injecting too high into the shoulder can be prevented with proper injection technique.

A recent review of the influenza concludes that the longer-term impact of this infectious disease is even more far-reaching than previously thought.