Flu

Lower staffing may drive increased antipsychotic use, study finds … Tough Australian flu season may foretell dangerous US winter … ACC: Rate of 4 cardiovascular risk factors projected to soar through...

Nursing facility flu study recruiting now … Medication dosages predict successful control of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis … Multidisciplinary collaboration leads to 63% C. diff reduction...

U.S. flu activity slowly picking up: CDC update … Pfizer pulls certain blood pressure drugs off market due to contamination … Risks of knee surgery no higher for octogenarians than younger patients,...

A decision to recommend high-dose influenza shots over standard-dose vaccines would be a welcome change, long-term care stakeholders say.

The first such study in 13 years finds nuanced changes in the risk that flu and respiratory syncytial virus pose to seniors, and underscores the impact of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic on infections and deaths...

It could be good news If Omicron is more transmissible but milder than delta … Operators need to adopt ‘not on my watch’ attitude toward flu: public health expert … Researchers look at repurposing...

A study of 26 million Medicare recipients has linked regular flu shots with lowered mortality — except in skilled nursing facility residents. The results suggest that vaccines alone are not enough to...

Nevada tops the list and Southern communities overall are showing some of the highest and most widespread flu activity, according to an index based on antiviral prescriptions data.

The results suggest that these effects are linked directly to SARS-CoV-2 infection and are not just a general consequence of viral infection, say investigators from University of Oxford, in the United...

Older adults who received the flu vaccine that season were notably less protected than their younger cohort against acute respiratory symptoms. Vaccination also was more protective against influenza-associated...