Study offers remedy to flu vaccine delivery problems

The annual delivery of influenza vaccine to the American public is hardly a straight shot from federal health officials to vaccine manufacturers to physicians to patients. A recurring and vexing part of the process is a supply-chain hitch that can leave patients waiting for flu shots even when the supply of the medicine is abundant. Now experts off a potential remedy by proposing a new kind of contract between flu vaccine manufacturers and the retailers that purchase and dispense the shots to pa...