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How Children's Birthdays Help Show the Best Month for Flu Shots Feb. 22, 2024 — First large-scale analysis of optimal timing for flu shots finds October is the best month for children to get ...

Parents of children born during the COVID-19 pandemic are being urged to get their children flu shots, with almost 5,000 ...

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Zinc products promising cold relief have been on the market for decades. A new analysis finds research on their efficacy to ...

Viral fever infections particularly seasonal flu can cause significant discomfort to daily life Follow these tips to protect ...

There is no need for the public to panic because many people have developed some level of immunity from both vaccines and ...

Every cold and flu season, folks are flooded with ads for zinc lozenges, sprays and syrups that promise to shorten their ...

cold, and stomach flu has become evident, particularly impacting children under eight years old with developing immune systems.

WHOOPING cough might sound like a disease from the Victorian era, but the bacterial bug has made a dramatic comeback in recent months. The ‘100-day cough’, as it’s also known, infects the ...

As Canadians bid farewell to the aches and chills of the respiratory virus season a new question looms: what other microbial ...