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For families with young children, cold and flu season is an endless cycle of somebody getting sick, recovering and then catching the next round from another family member or friend. Add to the mix the latest FDA concerns about cold and cough medicine safety for kids, and the drill becomes even more complicated.
As cold and flu season hits this year amid growing debate over the necessity of vaccinations, University of Toronto researchers have uncovered widespread misinformation in related videos on YouTube.
The holidays are approaching, and that means flu season is upon us.
A new clinical countermeasures strategy has been developed to offer increased protection against the effects of a flu pandemic if a 'worst case scenario' happened.
Florida Department of Health recognizes November 27 as Children's Flu Vaccination Day and reminds Floridians that the week after Thanksgiving, November 26 to December 2, is National Influenza Vaccination Week.
New Jersey residents encouraged to be vaccinated against seasonal influenza, which each year leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S.
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals remind people that it is not too late to get a flu shot.
Adenovirus: CDC reports that a virulent new form of a common cold virus known Adenovirus 14 has killed 10 people and hospitalized at least 53 since May 2006.
Health officials in the United Kingdom are confirming that the H5 strain of the Avian Flu have been found in turkeys on Redgrave Park Farm in Suffolk, England.
Minnesota has recorded its first culture-confirmed case of influenza for the 2007-08 season in a 44-year-old woman from Dakota County. The woman's illness was caused by the B/Shanghai-like strain of the virus, the Minnesota Department of Health reported today. The woman's virus is a good match for this year's vaccine, health officials said. The specimen was submitted by the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.
Maxim Health Systems is reminding people to get their annual flu vaccination if they have not done so already.
As cold and flu season approaches, millions of Americans begin stocking up their medicine cabinet with tissues, throat lozenges.
AlphaVax has concluded a phase 1 clinical trial in 216 volunteers of an influenza vaccine based on its proprietary replicon vector platform.
A panel of immunization experts has voted to expand the recommendation for the nasal spray influenza vaccine FluMist.
Experts to increase their projections of how many pandemic influenza vaccine courses can be made available in the coming years.
Bird flu experts say drug manufacturers will be able to sharply increase the amount of bird flu vaccine they are able to produce in the coming years.
Health Department is warning New Yorkers that influenza is a deadly disease and urging all New Yorkers to get a flu shot.
Each year, approximately 226,000 people in the US are hospitalized with complications from influenza and an average of 36,000 die from the virus and its complications.
Bayer Consumer Care announces the availability of the newly-named ALEVE-D Sinus and Cold.
The flu shot is safe and can prevent you from getting influenza that may lead to serious complications like pneumonia and even death.
The Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition has launched a Web site to support its newly issued report that calls for improved childhood influenza immunization rates in the United States.
State health officials are encouraging people who are at high risk for developing complications from influenza to get the influenza vaccine before the coming winter season. Individuals who are considered to be at high risk are children age six months through five years of age, people age 50 and older, and individuals with chronic medical conditions or compromised immune systems.
Health Protection Agency resumes its winter monitoring of flu activity in the UK. The flu season runs from October to May and, depending on the level of flu across the UK, an update will be published on the Agency's website either weekly or fortnightly.
The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current situation in relation to flu including:
The influenza A virus does not lie dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains before returning to the Northern Hemisphere as a genetically different virus, according to biologists who say the finding settles a key debate on what the virus does during the summer off-season when it is not infecting people.
Alabama Influenza immunization clinics are scheduled throughout the state beginning in October through the end of the influenza season.
The Volusia County Health Department is kicking off the 2007-2008 flu shot season with multiple flu vaccine clinics countywide.
SmartCare Family Medical Centers kicks off its flu shot season Oct. 1.
FDA approved Afluria, an additional seasonal influenza vaccine for the immunization of people ages 18 and older.\n
Each year, seasonal flu kills approximately 36,000 people in the United States, most over age 70.Yet little is known about the benefit of influenza vaccine in older seniors. Randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials involving seniors have not been large enough to reveal how well the vaccine can prevent death in this age group.
