FluShots

December 31 is an important day when it comes to healthcare purchases, because a few things will be expiring on that date. For those of you with flexible spending accounts, it's the last day for you to use the money you've stashed in that account, or else you'll forfeit the balance. (However, a few...

Microsoft and Google, two titans in technology, are separately trying to help combat the worst flu season in decades. First came an interactive Web site from Microsoft to help diagnose the swine flu. Now comes a flu shot finder from Google to help find shots for the regular flu and swine flu. If...

If you work at a hospital, you may be told, not asked, to get a seasonal flu vaccination soon.As the flu shot season gets an early start this year, the Associated Press is reporting that Loyola University Medical Center has adopted a new policy requiring its employees and students to get...

Got health care? In this American recession, probably not, especially if you're included in the 10% unemployment rate. And this flu season is shaping up to be über-nasty.With separate vaccines for seasonal flu and swine flu (be advised!), more Americans than ever will be eager to get stuck...