Tag: Flu
FDA Approves Updated COVID Vaccine as Cases Rise
Ready for another jab this fall? The updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine targeting the most recent variants – XBB, EG5 and BA286 – will be available at most area pharmacies and health care centers as soon as this week.
Feeling Unwell? It Could Be COVID. Or the Flu.
After a slight reprieve because last year’s COVID-19 precautions also worked for other viruses, flu season is back. And once again health care professionals are touting the importance of getting the annual influenza vaccine – or flu shot.
Achoo! It's The Flu Again
By Jay Cook |
If you’ve been lucky enough to dodge those flu germs, don’t count yourself safe yet because this season’s flu virus is...
Remedies for the Flu Season and Grandma’s Chicken Soup
By Teresa Liccardi, M.D.
The flu season is well upon us, and the national incidence of flu-like illness is still well above the epidemic threshold.
I would...
Widespread Flu Making Many Miserable
By Michele J. Kuhn
Got the flu? You aren’t alone.
“Everybody’s been hit hard,” said Dr. Stephanie Reynolds, medical director at the Emergency Care Center at...