The reduction in global travel during COVID-19 offered researchers new insights into influenza spread and mutation. After ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

A team of researchers led by Rice University's Jacob Robinson and the University of Texas Medical Branch's Peter Kan has ...

Viruses are the fastest-evolving biological entity on Earth. This fact explains why we need flu shots every year: Seasonal ...

Hope is on the horizon for needle-phobic patients as Griffith University researchers have created a new influenza vaccine ...

A cutting-edge genetic test can rapidly detect and identify almost any kind of disease-causing microorganism in the human ...

The Food and Drug Administration has lifted its clinical hold on a late-stage trial of Novavax's COVID-influenza and its ...

I have two young boys and between being their human pillow and carrying them on my back for "one ... A board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon I spoke with even said that supportive pillows like this ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...

Influenza, commonly called the flu, is a viral illness that causes respiratory symptoms as well as muscle aches, fever, headache, and fatigue. Rest and at-home self-care often relieve flu symptoms ...