Flu Season | featured news

The first flu shot that works with a less-scary skin prick instead of an inch-long needle is hitting the market this fall.

Vaccine makers said this month they plan to make a record amount of flu vaccine for this fall and winter enough for more than half the population.

The H1N1 swine flu virus which swept the globe last year has returned to Britain with 10 people dying in the last six weeks, health officials said Saturday.

Health officials are urging adults to get vaccinated against pertussis and flu as a way protect babies and other vulnerable patients.

It's that time again: Everywhere you go, people are sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. Think you're next to get sick? Not necessarily.

Most people are immune to the H1N1 flu virus that caused last season's pandemic, health officials report Tuesday.

Annual flu shots may protect against heart attacks, and the earlier in the season a shot is given the greater the protection, claims a new British ...

Fewer vaccinations impact drugstore chain's second-quarter results, which fall short of estimates.

The CDC says a third wave of the H1N1 pandemic is less likely in the U.S. Attention now turns to the Southern Hemisphere, where flu season is just beginning.

Mary Peterson of Des Moines, Washington, doesn't believe the vaccine for the novel H1N1 flu has been studied enough to get it for herself and her daughters, who are 1 and 3 years old.