Getting a Flu Shot May Reduce Your Risk of Stroke
Annual flu shots are linked to a lower risk of stroke. According to research recently published in the journal Neurology getting an annual flu vaccination…
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Two for One: Repeated Flu Vaccines Provide Kids Better Protection Against Future Flu Pandemics
Two for one: Repeated seasonal influenza vaccines also provide kids better protection against future flu pandemics, researchers find. Researchers at McMaster University have found that…
Time for the Flu Shot? The Surprising Connection Between Influenza and Fatal Heart Attacks
If you have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease, you already know about the increased risk of heart attack and stroke. But did…
“Twindemic” Threat: Ominous Flu Season Paired With COVID – What You Need To Know About Vaccination
As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this…
Strong Results for Advanced Universal Flu Vaccine in Clinical Trials
A vaccine that induces immune responses to a wide spectrum of influenza virus strains and subtypes has produced strong and durable results in early-stage clinical…
Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine That Could Work Against Any Influenza Strain
With computer models and lab experiments, researchers are working on a strategy for vaccines that could protect against any influenza virus. Each year, the flu…
Scientists Warn on Flu & COVID-19: Shocking New Research Shows Viruses Can Spread Through the Air on Dust Particles
Influenza viruses can spread through the air on dust, fibers, and other microscopic particles, according to new research from the University of California, Davis and…
Fast-Spreading Mutation Helps Common Flu Subtype Evade Immune Response and Vaccines
Finding highlights the need for flu vaccines to target multiple sites on virus. Strains of a common subtype of influenza virus, H3N2, have almost universally…
Flu Mutation Study: Universal Flu Vaccine May Be More Challenging Than Expected
Many flu strains may be capable of mutating to escape universal-vaccine antibodies. Some common strains of influenza have the potential to mutate to evade broad-acting…
Expert Analysis: When COVID-19 Meets the Next Flu Season
Pulmonologist outlines factors that could determine severity of ’20/’21 flu season. As if the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t scary enough, flu season is not far away. How…
Antiviral Drug Baloxavir Could Control of Flu Outbreaks by Limiting Viral Spread
Antiviral Drug Baloxavir Reduces Transmission of Flu Virus in Animal Study Baloxavir treatment reduced transmission of the flu virus from infected ferrets to healthy ferrets,…
Scientists Create Phage Capsid Nanoparticles That Prevent Viral Infection
Researchers have developed a phage capsid that renders influenza viruses harmless. The approach could also be applicable to the coronavirus. A new approach brings the…
Your First Battle With Flu Matters Most – Here’s Why
The first strain of influenza virus we encounter during childhood sets the course of how our immune system responds to exposures later in life. How…
Study Shows Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Effective
A new needle-free flu vaccine patch revved up the immune system much like a traditional flu shot without any negative side effects, according to a…
Genetic Mutation Linked to Flu-Related Heart Complications
Study in mice first to connect genes, flu, and cardiovascular problems. People with severe flu sometimes develop life-threatening heart problems, even when their hearts have…
NMR Spectroscopy Reveals How Cholesterol Molecules Bind to a Flu Protein
After a flu virus infects a host cell and hijacks its inner workings to create copies of itself, these copies gather into viral buds that…
New Research Reveals How Flu Viruses Gain the Ability to Spread
In a new study, scientists reveal that the soft palate (the soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth) plays a key…
Video Animation on How a Flu Virus Works
This year’s flu, called H3N2, is affecting many people this season and this three-minute video with NPR’s Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explains…
