Lots of flu shots this time around (Mesabi Daily News)
Whichever one you get, you need to get a new vaccine every year. Why? Because the flu virus changes every year and the vaccine is specially created to fight the viruses that are going to be a problem that year.
Lots of flu shots this time around (Mesabi Daily News)
VIRGINIA — First, the bad news — it’s flu season. The good news? There is plenty of flu vaccine to go around this year. Barb Roberts, nursing supervisor at the Duluth Clinic-Virginia, said the facility held its annual flu shot clinic last week and gave out 1,200 shots.
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Drive-through flu shots test ways to speedily deliver vaccines (Los Angeles Times)
Hundreds of motorists take advantage of clinics in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Instead of fast food, it was fast flu shots Friday for hundreds of motorists converging on drive-through vaccination clinics at community colleges in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
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Nittany Lions' football season had mix of good, bad, ugly (The York Dispatch)
Clint Eastwood should love the 2007 Penn State football team. Because this season's wildly inconsistent Nittany Lions would be right at home in Eastwood's 1966 classic spaghetti Western -- "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
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Soldiers thank our veterans while opposing the war in Wellsville (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
WELLSVILLE — A single leaf fell poignantly in the autumn sky as old soldiers lined up in Memorial Park to lower the flag to half-staff to honor those who have lost their lives in service to this country.
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No breaks for Wings in another loss to Blackhawks (Detroit News)
The Blackhawks continued their dominance over the Wings this season, winning 5-3 Saturday at Joe Louis Arena. What made their fourth win over the Wings unique was three shorthanded goals, two coming from Rene Bourque.
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No breaks for Wings in another loss to Blackhawks (Detroit News)
DETROIT -- Conventional hockey wisdom says scoring shorthanded goals is rare. Obviously, the Chicago Blackhawks don't subscribe to that theory. The Blackhawks continued their dominance over the Wings this season, winning 5-3 Saturday at Joe Louis Arena. What made their fourth win over the Wings unique was three shorthanded goals, two coming from Rene Bourque.
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Diabetes 'revolution' cuts both ways (CentralOhio.com)
Diabetes expert John Buse recalls looking into his office's waiting room in the early 1990s and seeing it filled with people suffering the long-term complications of the disease. They would be blind, have legs missing from emergency amputations or be on kidney dialysis.
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Heath news: Program has many services for senior citizens (The Advocate)
The Licking County Aging Program has many ways to help senior citizens. The program as home health aides who will clean house, do laundry and run errands.
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Doug Bremner: Flu Shots are for Idiots (HuffingtonPost)
Before I do anything like submit myself to having a needle jammed in my arm that I have to pay for, I always ask myself, is there any evidence that this is going to actually help ME?
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LOCAL NEWS (Daily Record)
Heading into the Northern States Competition on Friday at Giants Stadium, the Morris Knolls High School Marching Band couldn't have been in a better position.
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Lots of flu shots this time around (Mesabi Daily News)
Flu spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, killing millions of people in pandemic years and hundreds of thousands in non-pandemic years. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans. Often, these new strains result from the spread of an existing flu virus to humans from other animal species.
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