flu

As the world prepares for a possible near-term avian flu pandemic, people everywhere are wondering what they can do to protect themselves. As we all saw with the New Orleans flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, we cannot expect the…

Every year millions of people in North America suffer from the common cold, sore throat and other more serious respiratory illnesses.Influenza and pneumonia, one of the main complications of influenza, cause more than 5,000 deaths each year…

On Saturday morning, I finally rolled up my sleeve for the vaccine I'd been waiting for all summer: my annual flu shot, a technological marvel that I want to receive every fall.In times without a pandemic, the flu vaccine is a hot fall…