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Flu cases fall for the first time this awful influenza season
Flu activity is on the decrease for the first time in this fierce flu season, suggesting that the worst may be over, according to a federal health report released Friday. But the intensity of illness caused by the respiratory virus, the worst since the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010, continues to take its toll. Another […]Related:CDC warns about salmonella infections traced to kratomHere’s what you should know about the flu season this yearThis season’s flu vaccine is only 36 percent effective, but experts say you should still get it
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This flu season has now reached pandemic levels (but it ’ s not technically a pandemic)
This flu season is turning out to be so intense that the number of people seeking care at doctors' offices and emergency rooms has surged to levels not reported since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, federal officials said Friday. For yet another week, flu continues to get worse. “We were hoping to have […]Related:Robin Williams’s suicide was followed by a sharp rise in ‘copycat’ deathsBillionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who just purchased the Los Angeles Times, is a controversial figure in medicineFDA ramps up warnings about kratom, calling unregulated herb an ‘opioid’
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Here ’ s what you should know about the flu season this year
This post has been updated. This year's flu season is turning out to be so intense that the number of people seeking care at doctors' offices and emergency rooms is almost as high as levels reported during the peak of the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic, federal officials have said. It has already caused the most hospitalizations […]Related:Flu cases fall for the first time this awful influenza seasonCDC seeks new labs for bioterror pathogens to replace aging facilityCDC warns about salmonella infections traced to kratom
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘ They brought me back from death ’: How a woman survived six days without lungs
Melissa Benoit's lungs had been weakened by cystic fibrosis and ravaged by bacterial infections for three years. Then, last February, a bout of swine flu sent her spiraling toward death. By April, she gasped for air with every breath. She had coughing fits so intense her ribs fractured. Her lungs were as hard as a […]Related:Mold-contaminated mouth rinse found at NIH, spokeswoman saysDrug company to help improve Virginia’s prescription drug monitoring systemShe was a model. Then a mysterious digestive disorder starved her to death.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - January 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Children ’s deaths from flu climb sharply, CDC reports
Flu has killed 22 more children, the most reported since the respiratory virus began slamming the country in the fall, according to a government report released Friday. The total number of flu-related child deaths is now at least 84. But other indicators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that this vicious influenza season […]Related:Here’s what you should know about the flu season this yearThis season’s flu vaccine is only 36 percent effective, but experts say you should still get itNine organizations sue Trump administration for ending grants to teen pregnancy programs
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Children ’ s deaths from flu rise sharply amid signs that season may be hitting plateau
This file has been updated. Flu has killed 22 more children, the most reported since the respiratory virus began slamming the country in the fall, according to a government report released Friday. The total number of flu-related pediatric deaths is now at least 84 nationwide. But other indicators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest […]Related:Here’s what you should know about the flu season this yearThis season’s flu vaccine is only 36 percent effective, but experts say you should still get itNine organizations sue Trump administration for ending grants to teen pregnancy programs
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers find hint of a link between flu vaccine and miscarriage
Researchers studying the impact of the flu vaccine in pregnancy have found a possible link between miscarriage early in pregnancy in women who received the flu vaccine two years in a row. It’s the first study to identify a potential link between miscarriage and the flu vaccine and the first to assess the effect of repeat influenza […]Related:Melinda Gates decries ‘loss of U.S. leadership’ in global aidFormer CDC chief launches $225 million global health initiativeNew clinical trial might change the standard treatment for melanoma
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What to know about a study of flu vaccine and miscarriage
Researchers studying the flu vaccine in pregnancy have found a hint of a possible link between miscarriage early in pregnancy and the flu vaccine in women who received a certain version of the vaccine two years in a row. It’s the first study to identify a potential link between miscarriage and the flu vaccine and the first […]Related:Melinda Gates decries ‘loss of U.S. leadership’ in global aidFormer CDC chief launches $225 million global health initiativeNew clinical trial might change the standard treatment for melanoma
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
She claims paramedics said her 6-year-old had common flu symptoms and left. Now her daughter is dead.
Six-year-old Emily Muth first fell ill with the flu on Jan. 16. Three days later, she had difficulty breathing, so her mother, Rhonda Muth, called for an ambulance. Muth said a paramedic told her that labored breathing was a common symptom of the flu, so the ambulance was sent back. But Emily's breathing continued to […]Related:A boy’s basketball-size tumor was slowly killing him. He died days after doctors removed it.This flu season keeps getting deadlier, and a shutdown will make things worseHe ate raw fish almost every day — until a 5-foot-long tapeworm slithered out of his body
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - January 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Paramedics said her 6-year-old had common flu symptoms and left, she claims. Now her daughter is dead.
Six-year-old Emily Muth first fell ill with the flu on Jan. 16. Three days later, she had difficulty breathing, so her mother, Rhonda Muth, called for an ambulance. Muth said a paramedic told her that labored breathing was a common symptom of the flu, so the ambulance was sent back. But Emily's breathing continued to […]Related:A boy’s basketball-size tumor was slowly killing him. He died days after doctors removed it.This flu season keeps getting deadlier, and a shutdown will make things worseHe ate raw fish almost every day — until a 5-foot-long tapeworm slithered out of his body
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - January 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
His family thought he had a cold. A couple of days later, yet another child died of the flu.
Like many flu-related illnesses, Dylan Winnik's started with a cold — and escalated rapidly. He had it for a couple of days. By Monday, he was feverish. By Tuesday, his temperature had gone back to normal, but he died that day. The 12-year-old Florida boy became the latest casualty of an intense flu season that has so […]Related:Here’s what you should know about the flu season this yearMarijuana-based anti-seizure drug could hit U.S. market in 2018 after strong study resultsAgencies target ‘illegal, unapproved’ products that claim to treat opioid addiction
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - January 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
His family thought he had a cold. A couple of days later, he died of the flu.
Like many flu-related illnesses, Dylan Winnik's started with a cold — and escalated rapidly. He had it for a couple of days. By Monday, he was feverish. By Tuesday, his temperature had gone back to normal, but he died that day. The 12-year-old Florida boy became the latest casualty of an intense flu season that has so […]Related:Here’s what you should know about the flu season this yearMarijuana-based anti-seizure drug could hit U.S. market in 2018 after strong study resultsAgencies target ‘illegal, unapproved’ products that claim to treat opioid addiction
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - January 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This flu season is on track to be the worst in nearly a decade
With tens of thousands of patients flocking to hospitals and at least 37 children dead, this year’s flu season is shaping up to be the worst in nearly a decade — and it’s not over yet. At a time when experts hoped new cases would start tapering off, federal health officials said Friday that the […]Related:Here’s what you should know about the flu season this yearMonkeys in a nicotine experiment can relax. Their future is looking up.This flu season, with at least 37 child deaths so far, is on track to be among the worst in 15 years
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - January 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
She survived her first bout with the flu — but not the second
Angie Barwise had come down with the flu around the holidays. Days after Christmas, the 58-year-old Texas mother and grandmother was diagnosed with influenza, along with bronchitis and strep, her family told Fox affiliate KDFW. Doctors gave her antibiotics and Tamiflu, an antiviral medication used to help treat the flu and, soon after, she started to bounce back. But almost exactly a month […]Related:This flu season has now reached pandemic levels (but it’s not technically a pandemic)A hospital refused a new liver to a woman because she was undocumented. Then it found its heart.Robin Williams’s su...
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
She survived her first bout with the flu — but not the second
Angie Barwise had come down with the flu around the holidays. Days after Christmas, the 58-year-old Texas mother and grandmother was diagnosed with influenza, along with bronchitis and strep, her family told Fox affiliate KDFW. Doctors gave her antibiotics and Tamiflu, an antiviral medication used to help treat the flu, and, soon after, she started to bounce back. But almost exactly a month […]Related:This flu season has now reached pandemic levels (but it’s not technically a pandemic)A hospital refused a new liver to a woman because she was undocumented. Then it found its heart.Robin Williams’s s...
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
