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The ramp-up to cold and flu season is a bad time for consumers to learn that some of their most trusted go-to products don’t actually work. An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded unanimously in…

Pharmacist Ani Martirosyan administers an immunization to a patient at a CVS on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 in Glendale, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesFor the first time ever, vaccines for Covid, the flu and…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots. And this fall, the first vaccines for another…

A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows that the virus has passed from humans to swine about 370 times since 2009, and subsequent circulation in swine has resulted in the evolution…

While the incidence of influenza-associated neuropsychiatric events in children in the United States is unknown, the controversy over the use of a common antiviral medication typically administered to treat flu in children has sparked…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIR) today announced that the Phase 2 PENINSULA (PrevEntioN of IllNesS DUe to InfLuenza A) trial evaluating VIR-2482 for the prevention of symptomatic…

The local poultry industry is on edge after the latest ‘H7’ highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in Mpumalanga was confirmed to have mutated from a bird flu strain unique to South Africa. The province bordering Mozambique…

3. Keep painkillers on handWith flu season now in full swing, it makes sense for households to have some simple painkillers like paracetamol ready to go if symptoms strike.“Families and households often get sick around the same time so…

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A person receives a COVID-19 vaccination dose, during a free distribution of COVID-19 rapid test kits for those who received vaccination shots or booster shots, at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama |…