In case you missed it, the beginning of this winter’s flu season was heralded by a new TV commercial about a specific type of flu vaccine called Fluzone High-Dose. In the ad, an older woman runs into a number of contagious “Typhoid Marys” — a man cough… Continue reading
The recent stories about healthy tourists developing dangerous illnesses overseas may be enough to make you want to stay at home and sip mai tais in the safety of your living room. There were the reports of at least eight tourists in the Dominican Repu… Continue reading
(This post is sponsored and developed, in part, by Pfizer; however, the opinions are my own.) You’ve been battling that cough for a while now, and lately a fever and the shaking chills. You think it could be a cold or the flu. But you’re told by the do… Continue reading
(Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control — CDC — reported Thursday its estimate of the overall effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccination is 47 percent. For people age 50 and older, the estimate is just 24 percent. Yet, the CDC continu… Continue reading