Oncology & Cancer

Flu vaccination and cancer

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Mayo Clinic recommend a yearly flu vaccination for everyone six months and older, with rare exceptions. Vaccination is your best defense against flu. If you haven't gotten ...

Health

How states can better regulate indoor air quality

Open any weather report for your area, and in addition to temperature and humidity levels, you'll also find the current outdoor air quality. But what about when you enter a school, an office building, a hospital, or a grocery ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Why flu vaccination is more important this year than ever

Public health officials are warning that it could be a different flu season than what the U.S. experienced the past two years, so protecting yourself and your family is more important than ever.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China tightens restrictions as rise in virus cases reported

Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China's southern metropolis of Guangzhou was ordered to stay home for virus testing Saturday and a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Chinese officials signal no change to 'zero-COVID' policy

Chinese health officials gave no indication Saturday of any relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, following several days of speculation that the government was considering changes to a "zero-COVID" approach that has stymied ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Relief, caution in Beijing as city lifts COVID dine-in curbs

After staying home for more than a month, Chen Chunmei joined a long line of customers at a popular Beijing restaurant where diners tucked into massive bowls of crayfish following an easing of COVID restrictions in the Chinese ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Beijing reopens restaurants as new COVID-19 cases drop

Diners returned to restaurants in most of Beijing for the first time in more than a month Monday as authorities further eased pandemic-related restrictions after largely eradicating a small COVID-19 outbreak in the capital ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Shanghai eases Covid curbs in step towards ending lockdown

Shanghai slowly whirred back to life Wednesday as a range of COVID-19 restrictions were eased after a two-month lockdown that confined residents to their homes and battered the Chinese economy.

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