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A new section on Influenza, Flu or the common cold,with all the latest research and developments about Influenza or Flu and the common cold. It also includes all the various kinds of viruses associated with Influenza or Flu and ways to prevent Influenza or Flu. Also there are article on how to treat Flu or Influenza symptoms and all the latest drugs available for Flu or Influenza and the common co...
Medical News: A major new scientific review has revealed that vitamin D plays a powerful and complex role in strengthening the body’s immune defenses against serious viral infections such as COVID-19, long COVID, and influenza. Researchers found that maintaining adequate vitamin D levels may help reduce disease severity, improve recovery, and enhance the body’s ability to fight respira...
Medical News: A new scientific analysis is raising fresh questions about how well the popular flu drug oseltamivir, commonly known as Tamiflu, actually works inside the human body. While the medication has long been prescribed to shorten flu symptoms, researchers now suggest that its effect on the virus itself may be more limited and complex than previously believed.
Study reveals Tamiflu may...
Medical News: A Natural Plant Under Scientific Spotlight
Influenza A H1N1 continues to pose a serious global health risk, especially due to rising resistance against existing antiviral drugs. Scientists are increasingly turning toward traditional medicinal plants for safer alternatives. Artemisia, a plant long used in traditional medicine across Asia and Europe, has now attracted major scientific...
Medical News: Rising Death Toll Alarms Health Experts
The current influenza season in the United States is proving to be one of the most severe in recent years, with health authorities reporting a mounting toll of illness, hospitalizations, and deaths. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at least 11,000 Americans across all age groups have already died from flu-...
Medical News: Researchers from Japan have uncovered promising antiviral properties in several naturally occurring phytochemicals that could one day help fight two major viral infections affecting millions worldwide. The study, conducted by scientists from the Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, and the College of Life and Health Scien...
Medical News: Seasonal influenza is often dismissed as a short-lived respiratory illness, but growing scientific evidence shows it can quietly trigger serious and sometimes fatal heart complications. A new comprehensive review reveals that influenza significantly raises the risk of heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and cardiovascular death, especially among older adults and people with existi...
Medical News: Acute respiratory infections such as influenza A and COVID-19 are often viewed as short-term illnesses that mainly affect the lungs. However, new scientific evidence shows that their impact may extend far beyond fever and cough, quietly influencing mental health long after the infection appears to have resolved. This Medical News report highlights a major scientific review that explo...
Medical News: Long Flu Emerging as a Serious Long-Term Health Risk
A large-scale international study is now forcing doctors and public health authorities to rethink influenza as far more than a short-term seasonal illness. New evidence shows that influenza can quietly trigger a wide range of long-lasting health problems affecting the heart, brain, metabolism, kidneys, and mental health, sometimes...
Medical News: The COVID-19 pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It also quietly changed how other common illnesses behave, including seasonal influenza. A new large-scale national study has now revealed that while flu-related deaths and heart complications in children remained stable after COVID-19, the risk of serious breathing problems increased noticeably.
Post pandemic influenza is ...
Medical News: A new study from Croatia is raising alarms about an unexpected danger lurking behind the familiar winter flu. Researchers from the Department of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Neurology at University Hospital of Split, the University of Split School of Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Split, and the Public Health Institute of Split and Dalmatia...
Medical News: A New Tool Against Everyday Lung Infections
A new laboratory investigation led by scientists from SaNOtize Research & Development Corp. in Vancouver, Canada, together with experts from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia and Respiratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, has revealed highly promising results show...
Medical News: A New Way to Fight a Dangerous Winter Virus
A team of Chinese scientists has reported a promising breakthrough against influenza A infection a disease still responsible for more than one billion illnesses and about half a million deaths worldwide each year. The researchers are from Ocean University of China Qingdao, Xuzhou Vocational College of Industrial Technology Xuzhou, the Labo...
Medical News: Holiday Reporting Masks True Burden
Italy begins 2026 amid increasing circulation of respiratory pathogens, though the latest national surveillance figures are distorted by Christmas closures. The RespiVirNet report for 29 December–04 January (Week 2026-01) shows reduced medical consultations and delayed reporting, leading officials to caution that current numbers likely under...
Medical News: Flu Deaths Climb While Cases Ease
North Carolina is reporting a troubling spike in flu related fatalities even as the overall spread of respiratory illness shows the first signs of slowing. According to the latest weekly data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 22 additional residents lost their lives to flu linked complications last week. That brings th...
Medical News: Tiny Residents with Big Power
A growing body of research reveals that the microscopic bacteria living quietly inside the nose and throat can shape whether a flu infection stays mild or turns life-threatening. The review was led by Georgia Gioula and Maria Exindari from the Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Scientists f...
Medical News: Ancient Herb Yields Modern Flu Fighter
A research team from the State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process, Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co Ltd Lianyungang Jiangsu China has revealed exciting evidence that chlorogenic acid, a natural compound found richly in honeysuckle flowers, may offer powerful protection against dangerous influenza virus. This ...
Medical News: Florida’s Flu Winter Turns Fierce
Florida hospitals and clinics are grappling with one of the most intense influenza spikes in decades as a fast-moving mutated virus pushes illness levels into the very high category statewide. Emergency rooms across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are reporting surging traffic as patients arrive with classic complaints—fever,...
Medical News: Alarming Winter Spike Sweeps the Country
Greece is being battered by an explosive rise in seasonal influenza, with the aggressive new mutated H3N2 flu strain belonging to the K Clade driving a wave of infections that has rapidly spread across the nation. The National Public Health Organization or EODY reports that cases have soared sharply in just the last two weeks, turning what be...
Medical News: Seasonal influenza A (H3N2) remains one of the most troublesome flu subtypes, frequently linked with severe illness in older adults and children and periodic vaccine mismatch. As resistance to older antivirals such as amantadine and rimantadine (M2 blockers) has become widespread, interest has grown in drugs with new mechanisms of action. One unlikely contender is nitazoxanide, an an...
Medical News: Tiny Molecule Turns Heads in Virus Research
A growing body of science suggests a humble nutrient found in food and produced by gut bacteria could become a helping hand in fights against dangerous viral infections. New research from the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation Health and Nutrition Japan (NIBIOHN), Tsukuba Primate Research Center, and Osaka University Graduate Sch...
Medical News: A Sudden and Frightening Start to Flu Season
Massachusetts is grappling with a deeply troubling start to winter as three young children have died from influenza in just the first weeks of the season, bringing the total to four so far. The state Department of Public Health confirmed that the deaths occurred recently as flu activity accelerated sharply across the region. The Boston Pu...
Medical News: Ontario Faces Alarming Flu Surge Among Children
In a dramatic and worrying turn during the 2025-26 influenza season, recent public health data shows that flu test positivity rates among children in Ontario have reached an astonishing 59.6 percent — a sign of intense viral spread, especially among the province’s youngest residents. This Medical News report highlights how ...
Medical News: Illinois Enters a Critical Phase of the Respiratory Virus Season
Illinois is confronting a sharp escalation in seasonal respiratory illnesses as flu and COVID 19 cases rise simultaneously, signaling a challenging winter for healthcare systems and families alike. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health or IDPH, influenza activity has now reached the highest possible cla...
Medical News: A hidden concern behind common flu infections
A new scientific study has raised important concerns about how influenza infection during pregnancy could quietly affect a baby’s brain development. Researchers discovered that when pregnant mice were infected with certain strains of the influenza A virus, their offspring showed clear signs of reduced brain cell growth and increase...
Medical News: Ancient Herbal Remedy Meets Modern Science
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, continues to affect millions of people worldwide every year. With the virus constantly mutating and becoming resistant to existing drugs, scientists are urgently searching for new and effective treatments. Interestingly, answers may lie in ancient traditional medicine. This Medical News report highlight...
Medical News: Spain experienced an intense early flu wave this winter, driven by the new mutated H3N2 subclade K strain, which pushed healthcare systems to the brink with record-high cases in December 2025. The epidemic as yet to peak and a drop in positivity rates could due the long holidays over the New Year with many facilities closed. Hospitals and healthcare professionals are however overwhel...
Medical News: A newly published medical case from Taiwan has revealed how a rare but dangerous combination of COVID-19 and influenza A can trigger life threatening complications affecting both the heart and the brain. This alarming case highlights the hidden dangers of viral coinfections that many people may underestimate, even as the global focus on COVID-19 fades.
A rare COVID-19 and influe...
Medical News: A Fresh Look at Old Medicines for New Viral Threats
As the world continues to deal with recurring waves of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza, researchers are still searching for practical and affordable ways to prevent infections and reduce deaths. While certain antiviral drugs have helped to some extent, complications such as severe inflammation and organ failure remain a major conce...
Medical News: Croatia is facing an unusually intense influenza season as new surveillance data reveals a dramatic spike in flu activity, raising alarms among public health authorities and healthcare providers nationwide.
Croatia battles an explosive flu season as positivity rates and hospitalizations climb sharply nationwide
Early and Aggressive Start to the Flu Season
The 2025/2026 influ...
Medical News: A Growing Problem with Seasonal Flu
Influenza or flu continues to infect millions every year, causing severe illness and many deaths worldwide. While vaccines and antiviral drugs exist, the flu virus changes rapidly, often becoming resistant to current treatments. This has pushed scientists to search for new and safer alternatives, especially from natural sources that have been used...
Medical News: Puerto Rico is grappling with a severe influenza crisis that is now spilling beyond hospitals and into major sporting events, disrupting lives and raising alarms among health authorities. A dangerous surge in influenza cases, largely driven by the H3N2 strain, has already claimed the lives of children and forced the abrupt cancellation of one of the island’s most anticipated co...
Medical News: Influenza Remains a Serious Threat for The Vulnerable
Influenza is often viewed as a mild seasonal illness, but for people with weakened immune systems it can quickly become deadly. Immunocompromised individuals include cancer patients, organ transplant recipients, people receiving immune suppressing medications, and those with advanced HIV infection. A new comprehensive study expla...
Medical News: In a world where flu viruses like bird flu and swine flu keep making headlines, scientists are turning to nature for answers. Imagine everyday plants holding the key to fighting these sneaky germs. That's exactly what researchers have uncovered with special proteins called lectins from three Asian plants: the fragrant pandan leaf (Pandanus amaryllifolius), the Chinese daffodil (N...
Medical News: As flu cases surge across many regions, public concern is rising and for good reason. Health systems are once again under pressure as influenza spreads rapidly through communities. Against this backdrop, at home flu test kits are gaining attention as a convenient first line tool to identify infection early and limit transmission. But the key question remains how reliable are these ki...
Medical News: Flu Season Explodes Across the United States
The United States is facing one of its most aggressive flu seasons in recent years, with new federal data revealing a rapid escalation in infections hospitalizations and deaths. According to the latest updates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 7.5 million people have already been infected this season, ...
Medical News: The world is grappling with a ferocious flu surge, driven by a hyper-mutated H3N2 strain known as subclade K. This variant, exploding across continents since late-2025, has amassed an unprecedented number of genetic changes, sparking fears of a brutal winter season that could overwhelm hospitals and evade vaccines. However, new genomic sequences uploaded on the GISAID platform are in...
Medical News: H3N2 Flu May Trigger Lasting Brain Damage
A new scientific study has revealed that infection with the common H3N2 influenza virus may have lasting effects on the brain, even after the flu symptoms have completely disappeared. While most people think of the flu as a short-term illness affecting the lungs and airways, researchers now warn that its impact may be far more serious and lo...
Medical News: In the ever-evolving battle against viral infections, one drug has quietly maintained a stronghold in Eastern medicine while being conspicuously absent from Western pharmacies. Arbidol, also known as Umifenovir, emerges as a broad-spectrum antiviral agent with roots in Soviet-era research, offering potential defenses against influenza and beyond. Many studies conducted in Russia and ...
Medical News: US CDC Warns Flu Surge Is Accelerating Nationwide
Seasonal influenza activity is steadily rising across the United States, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning that the current surge is likely to intensify further in the coming weeks. Patterns observed so far mirror several previous flu seasons, but the growing number of infections suggests the 2025 to 20...
Medical News: In recent weeks, health authorities and doctors around the world have noted a troubling trend: individuals recovering from H3N2 influenza infections are reporting persistent vision issues. These range from blurred sight and light sensitivity to more severe optic nerve complications, raising alarms among ophthalmologists and infectious disease experts. While H3N2, a subtype of influen...
Medical News: Influenza Cases Rise Rapidly Nationwide
Seasonal influenza is spreading aggressively across the United States, with public health authorities warning that the pace of infections is likely to intensify in the coming days. Newly released data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the CDC, shows that flu activity is climbing steadily, pushing the nation closer to th...
Medical News: Tamiflu Use Surges as H3N2 Cases Rise
As H3N2 influenza cases climb globally, concerns are growing over how the antiviral drug oseltamivir, widely known as Tamiflu, is being prescribed. In countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, reports indicate that some doctors are hastily prescribing the drug even for mild or moderate flu symptoms. In several cases, p...
Medical News: UK Hospitals Buckle Under Historic Flu Surge
Hospitals across the United Kingdom are reeling from an unprecedented wave of influenza hospitalizations this winter, with clinicians warning of record overcrowding, critical pressures on emergency departments and healthcare staff being told to stop testing patients for COVID-19 to keep beds open for the deluge of flu cases. Such advice b...
Medical News: A Natural Option to Prevent Influenza May Be Closer Than Expected
A new observational study conducted in Bulgaria suggests that the common and inexpensive cough medicine bromhexine hydrochloride (BRH) may offer significant protection against influenza when used prophylactically. Inspired by earlier success in COVID-19 prevention, researchers from multiple departments at Medical Univ...
Medical News: Public frustration is rising across many countries as the current flu season unfolds alongside the spread of a newly mutated H3N2 K clade strain that appears to differ antigenically from the strain used in most 2025–2026 Northern Hemisphere influenza vaccines. Many members of the public are openly questioning why health authorities continue recommending seasonal flu vaccination...
Medical News: Ancient Practice Meets Modern Science
Influenza A remains one of the world’s most dangerous seasonal viruses, capable of causing severe lung inflammation, hospitalizations, and deaths, especially among the elderly and those with weaker immunity. While vaccines and antiviral drugs exist, they do not always work well for everyone and often need repeated use. Now, a new study fro...
Medical News: A team of researchers from Universiti Malaya in Malaysia and Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd. in Japan have discovered that a specific probiotic strain called Lactococcus lactis strain plasma, or LC-Plasma, may help the human immune system fight dangerous viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1. The team found that this probiotic can stimulate the body’s immune cells to produce powerful antiv...
Medical News: A growing body of scientific evidence is placing renewed focus on Pelargonium sidoides, a medicinal plant native to southern Africa that has been traditionally used for treating respiratory ailments for well over a century. In modern medicine, attention has centered on a standardized root extract known as EPs 7630, which is already widely prescribed or sold over the counter in many c...
In Spain, H5N1 Circulates in Wildlife While H3N2 Dominates Humans and Swine Flu Circulates in Pigs, Not Forgetting That There Are Many Locals Who Are Immunodeficient Due to HIV
Medical News: Spain Flu Melting Pot Raises Fears of a Dangerous New Variant
Spain is fast becoming one of Europe’s most worrying influenza hotspots, with multiple flu strains circulating simultaneously acros...
Thailand Medical News Exclusive: Secret Weapon Against Flu Viruses
In a stunning revelation that’s raising serious questions about transparency and biosecurity, a powerful new prophylactic flu treatment called Tivoxavir Marboxil (Tivor) is reportedly being kept under wraps by select American government agencies and billionaire elites. This investigational drug, designed to act as a one-time ...
Medical News: Flu season slams into high gear across New York
New York is experiencing a sharp and early surge in flu cases, with more than 14,500 lab-confirmed infections recorded in just the final week of November. That’s a dramatic 80 percent increase from the previous week, signaling the official arrival of flu season with alarming force. Hospitalizations have also nearly doubled during...
Medical News: New Herbal Hope for Flu Treatment from Southeast Asian Plant
A plant long used in Southeast Asian traditional medicine may soon become a modern-day weapon against the flu. Scientists from Kunming Medical University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Institute of Biological Products Co. Ltd., and Guizhou Holy Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have discovered that Blumea balsa...
Medical News: A Traditional Remedy Put to the Test
In a groundbreaking clinical trial involving 231 children across 14 major hospitals in China, a team of pediatric and respiratory medicine experts has confirmed that Qinxiang Qingjie (QXQJ), a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) herbal oral solution, is just as effective and safe as oseltamivir in treating pediatric influenza. This randomized, doub...
Medical News: Researchers from Changwon National University and Amicogen Inc., South Korea, have discovered a powerful new antiviral combination that could offer natural protection against dangerous respiratory infections like influenza A (H1N1) and human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV3). Their study focused on the effects of deacetylated chitosan, a compound derived from shrimp and crab shells,...
Medical News: Hospitals Prepare for Rising Pressure
Mallorca’s healthcare system is bracing for a sharp rise in flu and respiratory virus admissions as regional authorities confirm that the islands have now officially entered an epidemic phase. Health officials revealed that the Balearic Health Service is ready to activate up to 215 additional hospital beds across the islands to cope with t...
