December 9, 2004 – Experts suggest flu shots for pregnant women, but midwives not enthusiastic – Canadian Press via www.canada.com – “There’s a growing belief that pregnant women should be receiving key vaccines, including flu shots, experts say. But two new studies suggest the health-care professionals they see most often don’t or can’t deliver the vaccines in question…The studies, by Toronto researchers, found obstetricians often aren’t equipped to give vaccines and midwives aren’t permitted to give many, including flu shots…’So now we’ve said that pregnant women should be vaccinated, we’ve got this group of women who have a primary-care provider who can’t vaccinate them, because influenza vaccine is not on the list’ of drugs midwives can administer, said Dr. Allison McGeer, one of the authors of the studies.” – (This article is no longer available at Canada.com)