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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends getting a flu shot as soon as it becomes available. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Landov)

Flu Season

What You Need to Know This Flu Season As flu season approaches, medical experts have some new recommendations – along with some old standards – on how to reduce your chances of getting sick. FluMist is ‘out’ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer
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Do you just have the common cold or a more serious virus? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Cold Season

Viruses Can Spread When Jack Frost Nips A cure for the common cold isn’t in the crystal ball of an infectious diseases researcher and physician at St. Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development. “There’s not likely to be a vaccine or cure developed because colds don’t kill
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