By Brett Spiegel Public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have amped up their push for people to ge...
Chief Medical Editor for NBC News Dr. Nancy Snyderman thinks you should get the flu shot. When she joined me on Mondays With Marlo, Dr. Snyderman expl...
I had planned to go to Washington for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. But then the flu happened, and I decided it would be wiser to stay home than to take the bus to DC from Jersey and stand outside for who knows how many hours, coughing away in the winter weather.
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Fighting the flu may soon get easier. As early as next year, more mode...
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Nathaniel Chambers is feeling a little under the weather. The 27-year-old Connecticut man was busted one week after allegedly committing a violent ...
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by David Agus, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Engineering I'm a big believer in flu vaccines. ...
Flu season has hit the United States hard, with experts predicting it to be the worst in a decade. Now, shortages of the vaccine are being reported....
As the CDC and nearly every health group on the planet will tell you, getting vaccinated against influenza is the best thing you can do to avoid getting infected, and that's still true. But if influenza can roll across the country despite a tightly-matched vaccine, how good are our existing vaccines?
You see, I got hit. Hard. For the better part of the last week I was forced to remove myself from normal, daily life. I am one of those left flat out by this year's so-called "epidemic." I had a lot of time to think while I lay in a fetal position in my darkened bedroom.
CHICAGO — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospital...
Your mom warned you about going outside without a coat (or with a wet head). Was she right to worry?
A New Jersey 4-year-old has been home from school since Thursday -- not because he's sick, but because his parents won't give him the flu shot. Jer...
By Christopher Intagliata (Click here for the original article and podcast) Every fall, you need a new flu shot. That's because today's vaccines t...
The egg-based manufacturing process has been working for us to date; however, there is a new process that raises the bar in influenza vaccine manufacturing, is less time-consuming and brings the manufacturing process into the digital age.
On the surface, the flu vaccine seems like a no-brainer. History has shown us influenza can be a devastating and lethal disease worth attempting to control if not eradicate. However, looking more closely, we find that these apparent no-brainers do, in fact, present complicated policy questions.
By Erin Hicks Feel the sniffles coming on? The cold and flu season is upon us, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates ...
One of the reasons I started my website is that I wanted a place for women to come together and dream. We women need to know that we don't have to ha...
I stand by my support for the flu vaccine. Reasonable people might disagree -- and when they do, I will listen to them and encourage others to do likewise. Not so those who renounce reason altogether, and in its place offer only vitriol.
Familiarity breeds contempt, or at least complacency, and perhaps the annual return of influenza has induced that response. Perhaps that's why we seem to be dismissive of this germ, and overlook what a serious illness it can be. But that tendency is at our peril.
Are there any new or different types of vaccines being recommended to seniors this flu season?
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the first seasonal flu vaccine made using animal cell technology, rather than...
By Jaimie Dalessio In a recent survey of 2,160 American adults, 23 percent of men said they would rather do household chores (like laundry or w...
A free website and mobile app -- called Flu Near You -- helps people find nearby places to get a flu shot, enrolls people to act as flu watchdogs, and allows them to track flu activity in their neighborhood so they can protect their loved ones.
WASHINGTON — Time to get your flu vaccine – and a surprising new report shows babies and toddlers seem to be getting protected better than...
