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Unlike COVID-19, the flu has a vaccination. Officials are renewing the annual call to encourage healthy individuals to get a flu shot. Even though the flu shot is not a perfect vaccine and offers only 40% to 60% protection from infection, it can provide enormous benefits. 

Although vaccines may prevent or lessen the effects of different diseases, many of them produce similar side effects, like fevers and arm soreness.

With flu season just around the corner, the FDA’s approval last week of the first new antiviral flu drug in…

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There are 2 types of flu vaccine: a shot and a nasal spray. Each has small, but different, risks. The…

As a DES daughter(my mother was given a drug in pregnancy that crossed the placental barrier and caused lots of…