Flu shot

Flu shot When you get a flu shot you are injected in the arm with the influenza vaccine. The vaccine helps protect adults and children from getting influenza (flu).

Do You Have The Flu Or A Common Cold? You're coughing. Youve got a fever. You're feeling lousy. So whats happening to you? Do you have the flu, or just a common cold?...

Antibiotics: Too Much Of A Good Thing? Antibiotics are strong medicines. Everyday they are used to treat people whose illnesses would have resulted in death not so many years ago. Antibiotics are not used...

Managing Your Health: Personal Health Guide The first in a series of four health guides It's the New Year - and the time many of us set goals for ourselves, and our family. One of which is usually to eat right and exercise more: to generally manage our health better...

What You Can Do About the Flu Influenza, or `the flu`, is a viral infection of the nose, throat, and lungs. The flu spreads quickly from one person to another. When someone infected with the flu coughs or sneezes, droplets...

Immunizations Take the Bite Out of Winter! How Immunizations Provide Disease Prevention Well its fall again and questions about adult immunizations ("shots") are on the rise. This has been triggered in part by an outbreak...

It's not too late for a flu shot The flu is hitting hard -- and early -- this season. The message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is that it's still worthwhile to get immunized against the flu...

Mental Illness, The Invisible Killer It was my parents' first visit to San Francisco, maybe 15 years ago. We were walking down Market when we saw a man standing on a traffic island, brandishing a book and preaching at the top of his voice...

US recommends new flu vaccine Federal health officials said on Thursday they were changing two of the three strains in this winter's influenza vaccine and lowering the age for which a flu shot is recommended...