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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) Appointments for H1N1 flu vaccine at the Mecklenburg County Health Department can be made online or by telephone. Clinics start Monday for people who are at high risk of developing flu complications. They are pregnant women, people who live with or care for children under 6 months, anyone from 6 months to 24, anyone from 25 to 65 with...
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
(Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) About 1,500 children at six Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools queued up for H1N1 vaccine Monday on the first day of school-based clinics in the county. Six more schools will hold clinics daily through Nov. 24, when schools break for Thanksgiving, or as long as the Mecklenburg County Health Department's vaccine supply lasts.
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will begin free H1N1 flu clinics for students Monday in the county's first effort to bring the vaccine directly to school children, who are at high risk for complications. Six schools will offer the nasal mist or injectable vaccine Monday to children whose parents have signed consent forms. Six more schools...
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The Naked City (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... who knew of no conversations about development plans for the block. In September, the Observer's Karen Garloch reported that CHS president and COO Joe Piemonte said the hospital system didn't have specific plans for its East Boulevard property. "We're kind of standing pat ... and monitoring very closely for maintenance. Some of those buildings need to be torn down," he said...
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) After receiving a shipment this week of 1,400 doses of H1N1 vaccine, the Mecklenburg County Health Department is taking appointments to vaccinate people at high risk for complications from the swine flu. Flu clinics start today at two health department offices, 249 Billingsley Road and 2845 Beatties Ford Road. Nurses will distribute about...
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) If you're lucky, you may have found an H1N1 flu shot. But for most people, the message is: Be patient. Federal health officials promised the country would have 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine by now. Those predictions haven't held true.
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Speakers will be Ann Newman, associate professor at UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, and Martha Ann McConnell, vice president for government relations at Carolinas HealthCare System. Karen Garloch, medical reporter at The Charlotte Observer, will be the moderator. Details: . -- Staff reports
