Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AstraZeneca's FluMist was approved in 2003 to be given by health care providers. Last year, the FDA broadened the approval of the ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending children be vaccinated with injectable flu vaccine for the coming season, rather than the nasal spray vaccine FluMist, unless a child will only be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. The U.S. FDA recently approved FluMist as a self or ...

FluMist (influenza vaccine live, intranasal) is a brand-name vaccine that’s used to help prevent influenza infection (the flu) in adults and some children. FluMist comes as a nasal spray that’s given ...

Gaithersburg, Maryland-based MedImmune has received the Food and Drug Administration’s approval for self- or caregiver-administration of its FluMist nasal spray flu vaccine, meaning no physician ...

People eligible to use the only needle-free flu vaccine available in the United States may be able, next year, to give it to themselves or to eligible children at home. AstraZeneca, which makes the ...

On the market for two decades, AstraZeneca’s nasal spray flu vaccine, FluMist, may become available for self-administration as soon as next year. The FDA has accepted AZ’s supplemental biologics ...

The FluMist nasal flu vaccine allows people to immunize themselves and their kids without a trip to the doctor’s office or pharmacy. The FluMist nasal flu vaccine is now available for order online via ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first flu vaccine that does not have to be administered by a health care provider, but it won’t be available in time for this respiratory ...

Nearly a year after earning the first-ever FDA approval for a self-administered flu vaccine, AstraZeneca has kicked off a new service delivering its FluMist directly to consumers. FluMist has been ...

When it comes to vaccinating yourself – or your kids – against the flu, there are two options in the United States: a traditional shot or a nasal spray. Yet among children, the nasal spray appeared to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More children died from the flu this past season than any year outside of the swine flu pandemic in 2009. Most of them were ...