WASHINGTON – The Bush administration plans to make the smallpox vaccine available to all Americans eventually, but officials will recommend that only those who are at greatest risk of encountering a ...

Jerome Hauer, acting assistant secretary for public health emergency preparedness at HHS, said that the proposed compensation program would provide health care workers with the "level of comfort they ...

With little fanfare, the Bush administration on Friday issued the final regulation that lays out how healthcare workers who become ill because of smallpox vaccinations can receive financial ...

A federal initiative launched in 2003 to vaccinate healthcare workers against smallpox reached only a fraction of the people it sought. But veterans of the effort say elements of the Bush ...