The nasal spray option could encourage more people who have fears of doctors or needles to inoculate themselves against the ...

FluMist, a needle-free nasal spray influenza vaccine, has been approved by the FDA for self-administration in the US, making ...

You may report side effects related to AstraZeneca products. FLUMIST is a live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), which is administered as a nasal spray for the prevention of influenza. FLUMIST is ...

FluMist is the only nasal flu vaccine, but it is not new. The FDA approved it in 2003 for people 5 to 49 years old before ...

Related: How FluMist Nasal Flu Vaccine Works FluMist Quadrivalent is a live attenuated single-dose nasal spray that protects against two strains of influenza A and two strains of influenza B.

Flu shots are now available in area doctors offices and pharmacies. It's hard to believe we are just a few weeks away from ...

They found that a specific type of immune cell, called T follicular helper cells, indirectly controls the anti-influenza ... vaccine with nasal spray administration of a novel attenuated live ...

The CDC just released data that show a lot of children died of the flu last year. Here's what doctors recommend.

A recent PLoS Pathogens study evaluates the efficacy of a newly developed live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) protocol in eliciting immune responses in a porcine animal model. Study ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

The first influenza vaccine was a monovalent live-attenuated vaccine, which was used in Russia until recently. In 1940, a second strain of influenza virus was isolated; this was named influenza B ...