Flu

Neuraminidase inhibitors are important tools when influenza strikes and epidemics develop.

Miranda Wilheim, PharmD, clinical associate professor at SIUE School of Pharmacy, discusses ways that pharmacists can prepare for the upcoming flu season.

Health care providers often frame their immunization promotions by explaining that vaccination protects the individual.

All pregnant women, plus those planning to become pregnant during the influenza season, should receive an inactivated influenza vaccine, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

During febrile seizures, babies fall unconscious and may convulse. Their eyes may roll back, and their limbs may twitch or become rigid.

The 2015-2016 influenza season was remarkably mild compared to the previous 3 flu seasons.

The nasal spray flu vaccine sold as FluMist Quadravalent shouldn't be used in any setting during the 2016-2017 flu season, according to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Patients with heart failure who have had 3 or more vaccines had a 55% decreased risk of developing dementia.

The fear of pandemic avian influenza in 2004 spurred the CDC to initiate an international capacity-strengthening program.

Neuraminidase inhibitors prevent the spread of influenza within the body, but they don't directly eradicate the infection.

The FDA has approved Seqirus Inc's supplemental biologics license application for the use of its Flucelvax Quadrivalent influenza vaccine in patients 4 years and older.

As the name suggests, human immunodeficiency virus is all about lowered immunity.

Women who get a flu shot while they're pregnant help protect their baby from contracting the flu in the first 6 months of life, according to a new study.

Modified common flu adenovirus helps treat drug resistant cancers.

Rapivab was approved by the FDA in December 2014 to treat acute and uncomplicated influenza in adults.

Anti-top1 cancer drugs can potentially stop inflammatory responses that lead to sepsis.

Pharmacists may want to encourage their patients to receive the flu vaccine in the morning, rather than the afternoon.

Health care stakeholders across the nation are working to address public health needs in creative ways, and many of their solutions involve eliminating the prescription as a barrier to accessing health care.

Many Americans neglect a powerful way to prevent influenza infection and reduce its $87 billion related cost to the United States: flu shots.

Around 28,000 influenza infections are severe enough to warrant intensive care unit admissions each year.

Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder expected to more than triple in incidence by 2051, has some interesting similarities with infections like the flu.

By the end of March, influenza activity had decreased slightly but was still elevated across the country, according to the US Centers for Disease and Prevention.

Pharmacists must address questions and fears that patients have about the flu vaccine.

During the 2013-2014 influenza season, the influenza vaccination prevented approximately 7.2 million illnesses and 90,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations.

Pharmacy-driven education can increase immunization acceptance among hospitalized patients refusing flu or pneumococcal vaccination upon admission.