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It’s official: flu season is getting a late start this year. Although plenty of people have already suffered through flu symptoms, many have described this winter as a “mild flu season”. Unfortunately, the flu season really starts in the new year—February or March, and this year it’s just been a little late—so don’t let your [...]
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Schools everywhere seem to struggle to keep staph, and the far more intimidating (and life-threatening) MRSA, off their gym mats. Since staph, including MRSA, exists naturally on the skin (usually posing no threat), it’s an incredibly hard task, between wrestlers, cheerleaders, practicing divers, and other athletics clubs that will come into the mats on a [...]
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Usually, shingles symptoms affect the elderly, who are prone to suffer from a weakened immune system as they age. Younger people often only suffer from shingles symptoms when their immune system is weakened—by severe stress or another illness. Now asthma has been specifically tied to childhood cases of shingles—children with asthma are more than twice [...]
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Hepatitis C is killing more people each year, and those rates are expected to continue to rise for at least another decade without a change in how Hepatitis C is talked about. Since Hepatitis C symptoms can look like any other infection, many are unaware of the viral infection until more dramatic, life-threatening symptoms appear. [...]
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Surprisingly, sinus infection symptoms are one of the most common reasons for a doctor to prescribe antibiotics, despite the fact that they’re almost always caused by a virus, which antibiotics don’t  effect. Specifically, about 80% of sinus infection symptoms are treated with antibiotics, and that makes up about 20% of all antibiotics prescribed. Studies have [...]
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