Proposed changes by the Trump administration that discourage immigrants from using public services come just ahead of flu season, according to epidemiologists.
A study in Bangladesh highlights markedly different disease dynamics in the urban core versus the more rural periphery.
But there's a solution: the annual flu vaccine.
Wash your hands, football fans: Sending a team to the Super Bowl increases a town's flu deaths by 18 percent.
Researchers take a first step toward combatting influenza without the need for seasonal vaccines.
It’s better to be safe than sorry, and there’s nothing about the flu vaccine that’s dangerous.
If you come down with the flu, your doctor is more likely than not to write out a prescription for the wrong type of drug.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 has taught us many lessons and, according to new research, some of them are decidedly low-tech.
The Friendship Paradox may provide a handy predictor for whether a flu bug will result in a mass outbreak or a few cases of the sniffles.
The executive director of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine explains that while zoonotic diseases like swine flu are increasingly with us, quick public health reflexes can successfully clamp down on the outbreak. A Miller-McCune.com interview.
The devastation that any given flu strain can wreak depends on the genetics of the individual, new research suggests.
Two new studies of psychological stress provide another reason we all need to unwind, and suggest an effective way of doing so.
