Flu vaccinations: a justified pain in the arm?

A call for mandatory flu vaccinations.

Nonspecific Arm Pain

  Nonspecific activity-related arm pain is characterized by an absence of objective physical findings and symptoms that do not correspond with objective pathophysiology. Arm pain without strict diagnosis is often related to activity, work-related activity in particular, and is often seen in patients with physically demanding work. Psychological factors such as catastrophic thinking, symptoms of...

Red state, blue state, flu state: media self-selection and partisan gaps in Swine flu vaccinations.

This study assesses the relationship between political partisanship and attitudes and behavior with respect to the H1N1 virus (swine flu) crisis of 2009 in general, and the U.S. mass vaccination program in particular. I argue that even seemingly nonpartisan political issues like public health are increasingly characterized by partisan polarization in public attitudes and that such polarization ...

Flu Vaccine Production Gets a Shot in the Arm

Background: Requirements for successful implementation of multivariate animal threshold models including phenotypic and genotypic information are not known yet. Here simulated horse data were used to investigate the properties of multivariate estimators of genetic parameters for categorical, continuous and molecular genetic data in the context of important radiological health traits using mixed...

Pain in the arm; a review.

No one will deny the common occurrence of pain in the arm, nor the frequency with which the diagnosis of brachial neuritis was formerly made in such cases. Nevertheless, the pathology of brachial neuritis has not yet been described convincingly, and in recent years attention has been focused upon certain other common syndromes, the study of their well-defined morbid anatomy leaving little doubt...