It would then be offered to high risk groups across the island who already receive the seasonal flu vaccine.
The report is vague about funding and needs to be more specific about who the 'high risk groups' are.
The Chief Medical Officer Dr Ruth Hussey said she wanted to encourage as many people as possible in high risk groups to get vaccinated.
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At most, the study suggests that people in high risk groups who know they are likely to get a genetic disease can handle negative health information.
Work on the front line of the epidemic among the high risk groups such as addicts and prostitutes is left to organisations like the Alliance, he says.
The RNIB is urging people in high risk groups to have regular eye tests to pick up the onset of the condition and, if it is diagnosed, to adhere to medical advice.
"The overall long-term goal is to use these findings to develop faster and better means of identifying early atherosclerosis in high risk groups and prevent its progression to full blown heart disease, " he said.
Other life insurers, who consider the company to be a leader in insuring high-risk groups, are watching carefully.
Focused screening and information for high-risk groups could end the epidemic, experts say.
We would need more evidence that more than these six key, target high-risk groups that are prioritized can benefit.
Infants and their siblings, parents and caregivers are now also supposed to get the vaccine in addition to traditional high-risk groups.
It is reached when heat is so severe that illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups.
But even among these high-risk groups, the vaccine can prevent complications.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed the importance of reaching high-risk groups, including female sex workers, on July 23 in her remarks at the bi-annual International AIDS Conference.
He said current guidelines which say TB patients should only be offered testing - along with counselling and informed consent - if they are from high-risk groups or areas should be reviewed.
She has decided against vaccinating herself and her 12-year-old son both because she doesn't believe there is enough safety information about it, and because she doesn't think she and her son are in high-risk groups.
The evidence they have produced suggests programmes targeting the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C in high-risk groups as early as possible would prevent many new infections and associated health care costs many years down the line.
And where authorities formulate policies based on idealized human nature rather than real life, one cannot expect adequate measures to be adopted, whether in terms of general awareness-raising, safe-sex education, outreach to high-risk groups or needle-exchange programs.
Anthony Ware, who is leading prasugrel development at Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), notes that most of the bleeding deaths occurred in patients in high-risk groups, such as those who had strokes or were low in body weight.
Gareth Davies, Chief executive of the Cleft Lip and Palate Association, said past studies had indicated that taking folic acid may help prevent cleft lip and palate in so called "high risk" groups but until now there had been no conclusive evidence to back this up.
The new It Starts With Me campaign, created by the Terrence Higgins Trust, urges people in high-risk groups to get tested for HIV at least every 12 months, and more frequently if they have symptoms or have put themselves at risk by having unprotected sex, for example.
Their six-gene test could split patients into high and low risk groups.
Since 1992 its small but dedicated staff has been testing high-and low-risk groups in 19 places in the country twice a year.
Children and young adults up to age 24 are one of the groups at high risk for severe complications of the H1N1 flu.
Scientists say it isn't clear whether the drug will work for all groups at high risk of infection because the virus enters the body in different ways in each case.
Ultimately, what we need is a study that randomizes people at high risk of developing diabetes into four groups.
At this week's meeting China, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam home to over 1.5 billion people will all report huge rises in infection in groups with high-risk behaviour.
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As international troops draw down from Afghanistan and the military presences lessens, what is really going to help the country and provide a future for Afghans is the civil society groups who work to keep children off the streets and to provide viable alternatives, like education and jobs training, that mitigates youth recruitment into ideologically extreme groups or other high-risk behavior.
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"In the meantime, for the forthcoming flu season, our priority remains to ensure a high uptake rate is achieved in the at risk groups including pregnant women, " he added.
Both early renewals and self-funded plans will have the effect of keeping more groups off the exchanges, thereby blunting the savings for high-risk policyholders.
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