Influenza

A new study will examine how diabetes affects brain changes over time in adults with Hispanic ancestry.

Influenza, once the respiratory scourge that nursing home residents and professionals feared the most each year before COVID-19 hit, should be back on providers’ radar in a big way, experts warn.

With flu surging in Southern hemisphere countries and more people mingling, the past two years’ reprieve from the flu is likely over, vaccine makers say.

Older adults with no signs of dementia and at least one flu vaccination were 40% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease within the next four years than their unvaccinated peers, Medicare claims data...

A flu shot can offer significant protection to patients at high risk for adverse cardiovascular events, according to a new analysis.

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...

When influenza and RSV virus activity rates rise, acute-care readmissions follow suit for residents of skilled nursing facilities. These relative readmissions rates spike even higher during flu season,...

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.

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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...