Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People who get a flu shot are less likely to become severely ill, be hospitalized or die. - Kylie Cooper/Reuters/File Flu is ...

Limiting alcohol, intense exercise, and pain relievers after a flu shot may decrease side effects and improve your immune response. Side effects from the flu shot may include soreness at the injection ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- If you've been doing everything you're being asked to do in the face of the pandemic -- wearing a mask, washing your hands frequently, staying at home as much as possible, and ...

National Poll on Healthy Aging data from adults age 50 and over who replied to a poll in late December 2025 and early January 2026 saying that they had not received a flu vaccination in the last 6 ...

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst ...

It appears that using smaller doses of flu vaccine will provide adequate protection for most people, but not for those over 60 years of age. Two pilot studies suggest that the method of putting ...

Flu is making people miserable from coast to coast, thanks in large part to a new strain called subclade K. That’s why infectious disease experts are telling people to run, not walk, to get this ...