Doctors are urging vaccinations, especially for vulnerable populations such as children, elderly, pregnant women ...

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As we get deeper into flu season, a new type of the influenza virus has been identified, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to shoulders, an old visitor also makes a reappearance: the flu. It announces itself with fever, aching limbs, and the familiar drip of a runny ...

ANSWER: Both colds and influenza (the “flu”) are respiratory illnesses that are caused by viruses. Influenza is caused specifically by the influenza viruses, which come in two main types (A and B).

Browse through your local pharmacy cold and flu remedy aisle, and you are likely to bump into customers reading the labels on ...

Onset, intensity, severity and duration of influenza seasons vary each year and are driven by factors such as temperature, ...

HealthDay News — Federal regulators have begun a safety review of two RSV medicines used to protect infants, even though no safety problems have been reported. The review covers Beyfortus (from Sanofi ...

In the first week of December, there was a 70 per cent jump in the number of lab-confirmed influenza cases in Alberta, along ...

A study of more than 1 million UK medical records found that getting a flu vaccine between ages 40 and 50 did not increase Parkinson’s disease risk and was even associated with a lower estimated ...