How to Boost Your Child’s Immune System This School Year
Back-to-school time means kids will come home with sniffles, sneezes, and coughs. While there isn’t a way to keep them healthy all the time, and no one has a cure…
Why (and When) You Should Get Both a COVID Shot and a Flu Shot This Fall
The COVID shots of 2021—and even the bivalent booster you may have gotten recently—are no longer a great match for the strains of the virus that are going around. Fortunately,…
You Might Want to Get a Flu Shot Early If You’re Pregnant, CDC Says
It’s summer. Pretty soon, drugstores will start advertising that they have flu vaccines, maybe even enticing you with the promise of a coupon to come in and get one. But…
Masks Aren’t to Blame for the Surge in RSV and Flu Right Now
Photo: Ground Picture (Shutterstock) This year’s flu season is shaping up to be especially bad, with the current weekly number of cases at extraordinarily high levels. Meanwhile, doctors are seeing…
Everything You Need to Know About This Year’s Flu Shot
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) It’s flu shot season and, once again, the influenza vaccine is an important one to get. With mask-wearing on the decline, there’s likely to be…
How Worried Should You Be About Avian Flu?
Image: MVolodymyr (Shutterstock) Avian flu is back in the news following an outbreak in the Midwest and Northeast, and the subsequent euthanizing or death of over 21 million birds since…
Home Remedies: 5 Easy Recipes To Fight The Seasonal Flu
The coming of October means the change of weather. One day it will be so cold that you would want to shower in hot water, the other would be so…
Plan Your Flu Shot Around These Cash Coupons
Photo: rblfmr (Shutterstock) In the pandemic era, it’s easy to forget about another important inoculation—the flu vaccine. While we got off lightly in 2020, health experts are suggesting that flu…
Why It’s Even More Important to Get Your Flu Shot This Year
Photo: FotoDuets (Shutterstock) Last year’s flu season occurred in the midst of a COVID-19 surge, sparking concerns of a “twindemic,” in which the coronavirus and the flu would be circulating…