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Byline: Stephen Adams THE chief executive of the drugs giant that makes flu treatment Tamiflu, which some claim could be no more effective than paracetamol, has dismissed concerns from scientists [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent FLU is on the rise with the number of people consulting their doctors with symptoms jumping by almost half in a fortnight. Consultation rates in [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent MINISTERS should demand that the maker of the flu drug Tamiflu returns £500million to the NHS if it is found to have sat on trials [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams ALL children in England are to be given the seasonal flu vaccine after scientists concluded it could save thousands of lives by stopping youngsters spreading the virus [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams The discovery that some people have a natural resistance to all flu strains could lead to a universal vaccine, scientists have said. By infecting 41 healthy volunteers [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent ALL children could be vaccinated against flu in future, the Department of Health has indicated. Prof David Salisbury, the NHS's director of immunisation, has said [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent DOZENS of vulnerable patients could have died after catching flu in English hospitals during the recent pandemic, a report indicates, amid increasing concern that not [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent DOCTORS and nurses who fail to get themselves vaccinated against flu are being 'selfish' because they risk endangering patients, the Chief Medical Officer of the [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent THOUSANDS of lives could be saved every year if all young children were vaccinated annually against flu, Oxford University academics claim. Doing so would not [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent THOUSANDS of lives could be saved every year if all young children were vaccinated annually against flu, Oxford University academics claim. Doing so would not [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent THE medical committee that decided against vaccinating under-fives against flu this winter should reconsider its position on immunisation, MPs have urged. The flu outbreak led [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent MAN flu does exist – at least in the minds of the patients. Researchers discovered that men 'overrate' the symptoms of a common cold, unlike [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams and Peter Hutchinson PRIVATE health clinics are charging desperate parents up to £77 to give children the seasonal flu jab – more than five times Boots's fee [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams and Peter Hutchinson PRIVATE health clinics are charging desperate parents up to £77 to give children the seasonal flu jab – more than five times Boots' fee [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent THE 'worried well' have every right to pay to be vaccinated against seasonal flu, pharmacists said yesterday after a leading doctor suggested jabs be saved [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams and Rebecca Smith THE 'worried well' should be banned from paying for the flu jab privately at pharmacies, according to a leading doctor, as chemists begin to [...]

Byline: Stephen Adams Medical Correspondent A SECOND flu wave could emerge in the coming weeks, this time hitting elderly people, figures suggest. While data released by the Health Protection Agency [...]

Byline: Rebecca Smith and Stephen Adams GP surgeries are running out of the seasonal flu vaccine after a surge in cases, with manufacturers warning they have no supplies left. In [...]

Byline: Rebecca Smith and Stephen Adams GP surgeries in England are running out of the seasonal flu vaccine after a surge in cases, with manufacturers warning they have no supplies [...]

Byline: Rebecca Smith and Stephen Adams GP surgeries are running out of the seasonal flu vaccine after a surge in cases, with manufacturers warning they have no supplies left. In [...]

Byline: Rosa Prince, Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett THE decision to cancel the flu vaccination programme for the under-fives risks starting the first epidemic for a decade when schools return [...]

Byline: Rosa Prince, Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett THE decision to cancel the flu vaccination programme for the under-fives risks starting the first epidemic for a decade when schools return [...]

THE global scale of the swine flu outbreak became clear yesterday with suspected cases occurring in countries across five continents. As the number of deaths linked to the virus approached [...]