there is NO absolute way that i'm pregnant, so that is out of the question, but i went to bed with somewhat of a queezy stomach last night, i woke up at 6am and felt like i had the flu...my stomach is queezy/achy, and i had some diarrhea, idk what else i could have beside the flu, any ideas?
Babies under two have second the highest rates of flu, after the elderly. Giving them the flu vaccine has been found to be effective in preventing influenza. Researchers from Turku University Hospital, Finland wrote in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases that vaccination...
Doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center want to make sure children are protected from influenza this flu season. The flu is an infection of the nose, throat and lungs caused by a variety of strains of influenza viruses. While the flu typically causes mild symptoms, it can be...
I'm scared, I've never thrown up, and so I ask this.
If I do get the stomach flu and suddenly feel very nauseous, would smoking a couple hits of marijuana help keep me from vomiting? Or, since I really rarely smoke, would it make me worse?
And for all those "it's illegal" ppl out there, it's...
A variant of last year's pandemic influenza linked to fatal cases carried a mutation that enabled it to infect a different subset of cells lining the airway, according to new research. The study, due to be published next week in the Journal of Virology, suggests that the mutant virus could have...
Beating the flu has always been tough, but it has gotten even more difficult in recent years. Two of the four antiviral drugs used to treat a nasty case of the influenza A virus no longer work. Fortunately, scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Institute of Molecular...
Bharat Biotech announced the launch of India's first indigenously developed cell culture H1N1 swine flu vaccine under the brand name 'HNVAC™'. HNVAC™ is the only developing world flu vaccine to be manufactured in cell culture, a highly sterile and controlled manufacturing process, instead of...
If a woman has a flu shot while pregnant the chances of her baby getting flu or being admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection are significantly lower, especially during their first six months after being born, researchers wrote in an article published in Archives of Pediatrics &...
Your friends are probably more popular than you are. And this "friendship paradox" may help predict the spread of infectious disease. Nicholas Christakis, professor of medicine, medical sociology and sociology at Harvard University, and James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political...
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: WINN), will offer flu vaccinations on a walk-in basis and through vaccine clinics at all of its in-store pharmacies beginning Sept. 1. Customers using their Winn-Dixie Customer Reward Card will receive a $5 discount off the $28 flu vaccine ($23 with the Customer...
My girlfriend has a viral infection (Doctor informed her) and now I have just caught the early symptom signs, But what I wondered was how does (If it does) physical fitness effect how the body deals with cold flu's and virus? I went for an 80mile (125km) cycle and it didn't bother me this...
I think i have a congestion flu, as i cant stop coughing for the last 5 days.. but the coughs usually feel like mucus in the throat... i had my humidifier running all night and the coughing was non-stop but no pain... i have been taking Robutussin DM. And that seems to help.. but i have no...
for about 2 and a half weeks now ive been feeling like i have the flu. tired, very achy and extremely weak. recently ive also began developing alot of hair loss as well as mouth sores. i have never had a very good immune system but i am usually quite healthy. i am an 18 year old female and i...
The proportion of Americans with diabetes ages 18 to 64 who reported getting flu shots the previous year rose from 40 percent to 50.5 percent between 2000 and 2007, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In contrast, the proportion of...
Better Preparation Required For Next Flu Outbreak, Despite Mildness Of Swine Flu Now that concerns about swine flu have eased, "[o]ur fear is that the public and officials will get blase about the next flu outbreak," according to a New York Times editorial. "Efforts to rush vaccine into...
A new understanding of a certain cell in the immune system may help guide scientists in creating better flu vaccines, report researchers from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI). Reporting online March 21 in...
A new understanding of a certain cell in the immune system may help guide scientists in creating better flu vaccines, report researchers from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI). Reporting online March 21 in...