In advance of every flu season, you can pretty much expect the topics of conversation to tread on familiar territory. Among those who cite reasons to decline the flu shot, one popular but misguided notion is that the vaccine itself…
Having a baby, they say, changes everything. That may be true from a lifestyle perspective, but the one thing it doesn’t change is the chance of catching the flu during pregnancy. Those odds are more or less equal for all,…
Statistics suggest that a negative trend has been at work. Just a couple of years ago, the CDC estimated that only 37.1% of adults in the U.S. were vaccinated—a decrease of more than six percentage points from the previous season.…
That “run-over-by-a-truck” feeling with the flu is something just about everyone can relate to. And yet, there are times when we’ve all mistaken simple cold symptoms as the sign of the more serious variety. Although sore throats, runny noses, coughs…
