The holidays are here and with them family, friends, parties and germs. This year, in light of the H1N1 outbreak, many fear that the most wonderful time of the year will end up being the unhealthiest, too. “While crowded...
Posted on: Thursday, 19 November 2009, 08:00 CST LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of Americans are currently preparing for winter with their annual flu shot. But preparations shouldn't stop there. Keeping...
A VIRUS that causes the common cold may be saving people from swine flu. If this intriguing idea turns out to be true, it would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new...
Runny nose, fever, cough, even pneumonia — the symptoms sound like swine flu but children hospitalized at one U.S. hospital in fact had a rhinovirus, better known as a common cold virus, doctors said on Tuesday.
My son’s been home sick for the last two days, and since the school requires kids to be fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school, he’ll be home tomorrow too. And probably even Friday, just to be sure. I can’t remember...
clipped by: merrie clipper's remarks: 1.) Eating too much sugar doesn't just pack on pounds … A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating 100 g of sugar (think three cans of soda)...
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two main hospitals of the Pakistani capital have packed with the patients of flu, cold, chest infection and other seasonal diseases due to dry and changing of weather, a survey report said...
New Report Finds Use of Nasal Cold Remedies with Zinc Could Irreversibly Damage Sense of Smell Weitz &Luxenberg P.C. (www.weitzlux.com) would like to alert the public to growing scientific evidence that use of nasal cold...