Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons hasn’t seen a flu season this bad at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital since the pre-COVID-19 era.

Dr. Aileen Marty, Infectious Disease Specialist and Professor at Florida International University, joins Bob Sirott to talk about the latest health news. Dr. Marty discuses an announcement from a ...

Papenfus now praises the investment in research that, he believes, advanced science by decades in just a few years.

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

Mayor Eric Adams and his challengers have their own ideas for how the city could weather a future health crisis.

On this week’s episode of “More To The Story,” how public health emergencies and the dismantling of federal agencies are ...

Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

The state Department of Health reported “very high” levels of flu statewide between Feb. 23 and March 1. DOH also reported ...

Communities throughout the U.S. have been afflicted by a large influenza load this year, but numbers are now trending ...

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