NEW YORK — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the ...

A family had more than $12,000 in medical bills they couldn't explain after their baby was delivered early. It turns out the doctors who cared for her worked at a different, out-of-network hospital.

Figures show more than 4,500 beds alone were taken up by flu patients every day last week, up 3.5 times on the same week last year. Of these, 211 were in critical care.

The CDC said the week ending Feb. 15 was a "high severity season" when it comes to flu, the first since 2017-2018.

Getting a flu shot during pregnancy is the best way to protect yourself and your baby from the flu. When babies are born, they don’t have the ability to fight sickness like adults do.

Abigail Herivaux, 9, of Cooper City, gets a flu shot at Pediatric Associates in Pembroke Pines on Friday. Pediatric Associates has 35 offices in South Florida. How to curb the spread in your home ...

What makes this year different, however, is that flu is surging in Australia for the first time since the pandemic began. Flu season in Australia can be an indication of what's to come in the U.S.

If you have flu while you're pregnant, it could cause your baby to be born prematurely or have a low birth weight, according to the NHS. In the most serious cases, it could lead to stillbirth or ...

Barack Obama did it. Donald Trump did it. Joe Biden, of course, has done it too. But each of them was wrong: Kissing another person’s baby is just not a good idea. That rule of lip, experts told ...

The flu vaccine is safe during pregnancy and can also help protect the baby, said Dr. Tamika Auguste, chair of women's and infants' services at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.

Across the country, viruses such as RSV and flu, once brought to near-record lows by pandemic mitigations, have now returned in force, all while COVID-19 continues to churn and the health-care ...