Health officials debate mandatory flu shots for kids, health-care workers
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people across the country willingly
roll up their sleeves and endure the quick jab of a flu shot. Many parents make the same decision for their children.
Many more choose not to be vaccinated.
But what if we had no choice?
in the nation to require the flu vaccination for children, and mandatory vaccination is also being pushed for Read the rest of this entry »

Legislators should not alter an effective policy that has worked to protect the health of New Jerseyans, especially children.
Government should not intrude into families to tell parents exactly how to raise their children. But some actions or inaction by parents go beyond the family unit and may affect the general public. Childhood vaccinations are one example where government justly intervenes in a family’s health decisions.
A group of parents Read the rest of this entry »

New Jersey’s Public Health Council stopped complaining last year about parents who don’t vaccinate their children and took action. Now, New Jersey is the first state in the nation to require a flu shot for all children before they enroll in preschools and daycare centers.
The compulsory vaccination for preschoolers is intended to promote public health, a move based on a recommendation from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Read the rest of this entry »

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New Delhi, Nov 04: With a view to report adverse drug
reactions (ADR) in an effective way, government may soon make
it compulsory for all medical colleges in India to have a
Pharmacovigilance department.
“We are planning to make it compulsory for all 289
medical colleges in India to have a separate pharmacovigilance
department for reporting of adverse drug reactions,” Drug
Controller General of India (DCGI) Surinder Singh said, while
speaking Read the rest of this entry »

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — Senator
, presenting the
first Democratic health plan since President-elect
's victory, said all Americans should be required to have
insurance once coverage is made affordable.
Baucus of Montana, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said in a health-care blueprint released today that
only a mandate could ensure people didn't wait until they were
ill to buy health insurance, forcing up the price for everyone.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mandatory traceability system in the United States would help improve the safety of food, such as produce, a health official told lawmakers on Wednesday, three weeks after the government declared an end to the worst foodborne outbreak in a decade.
Some produce firms, including many in the tomato industry, use voluntary traceability programs but their approaches vary. Lawmakers said a mandatory program was overdue, and would Read the rest of this entry »

Americans should be required to buy health insurance, bringing healthier people into plans that will help bring down costs, the chairman of one of the nation’s largest private insurance companies told a Detroit audience Tuesday.
Ron Williams, chairman and CEO of Aetna, said he favors plans similar to those adopted by some states that require everyone to have health insurance — either through a workplace plan or through a plan consumers buy on their Read the rest of this entry »