US flu cases are peaking for a second time this season. Now you can test for the virus at home
The United States is seeing a second peak in flu cases this season. After doctor’s office visits for flu dipped early this ...
Covid isn’t as bad this winter. Flu is worse. Here’s why.
The covid wave this winter is less severe compared with previous years, with hospitalization rates down and wastewater levels ...
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HPV self-collection tests must be approved for use at home
Women’s health champions like us cheered in January when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a draft ...
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Americans Still Consider COVID Major Public Health Threat
People still see COVID-19 as an ongoing public health threat, even though the pandemic officially ended in 2023, acc ...
Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.
Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the ...
Why Flu Vaccination Is Important and What to Do If You Didn’t
What should you do if the flu gets you? You’d be better off asking how to protect yourself from the flu before that happens.
SA Health’s Special Leave for staff with Covid faces being dumped
SA Health is planning to end the directive that staff with Covid stay home — and also end the Special Leave arrangements and ...
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Alaska’s test scores fuel political debate on future of schools
Education officials point to broader issues of budget cuts, staff shortages, and COVID-19 pandemic impacts on student ...
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Southern 7 Health Department schedules February van clinics
The WOW van offers a litany of free services and will be circulating throughout Southern Illinois — its first two stops this ...
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Cold or Flu: How to tell which virus you have
Doctors say it is important to know what you have to not only treat the illness, but to also know how long it could be ...
Health expert looks at concerns of 'quad-demic'
The four named viruses, which some have deemed a 'quad-demic,' consist of RSV, COVID-19, influenza, and norovirus. Dr. Abinash Achrekar, KOAT and University of New Mexico health expert, explains what ...