The agency also recommends giving workers Tamiflu, an antiviral medication for flu, if they weren't using protective ...

The study also found the use of antiviral medications declined among patients ... Schaffner, the study co-author, said the ...

Should you experience any of the following symptoms, call 911 or go to the emergency room right away: Knowing what cold and flu medicines do helps you choose the best medication for your symptoms.

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to ...

After a new study showed that bird flu has spread to dairy farm workers more often than previously known, the US Centers for ...

Besides the flu, other respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID also tend to peak during the ...

FluMist, the nasal flu vaccine spray, was approved in September by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for at-home use ...

It you have flu shot side effects at all, they will likely start eight to 12 hours after your shot, says Thomas Russo, M.D., ...

“The key is that you need about two weeks for your body to build up immunity to the flu,” Erin Muckey, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. “But that ...

Asian flu by last week had attacked an estimated 400,000 ... attributed to complications of the disease (mostly pneumonia). Best estimates are that the epidemic will strike most of the U.S ...

UAB Medicine strives to provide the best care and support to our patients by having healthy employees and to encourage a healthy community. For these reasons, UAB Medicine will implement a new policy ...

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be spreading to people. It suggests that the virus has infected more humans than the ...