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Tough Cold Season

Tough Cold Season

08 Feb 2012

Are you having trouble ditching your cold? Does it seem like everyone you know has been sick? It's been a very strange cold and flu season. ...

Travel etiquette: flying with the flu

07 Feb 2012

We give you some tips for how to avoid spreading or catching the flu when you're up in the air. ...

Dolphin, seal deaths a cause for concern

Dolphin, seal deaths a cause for concern

28 Jan 2012

…carcasses were found between northern Massachusetts and Maine. Scientists have determined the seal deaths were linked to an influenza virus similar to one found in birds. It had never been seen before in seals. They say the initial indications are there… ...

DPH issues warning about local milk

DPH issues warning about local milk

20 Jan 2012

…reported by an individual who had contact with the farm. According to the DPH, Brucellosis is a bacterial infection that can cause flu-like symptoms including sweats, headache, fever, swollen lymph nodes, and back pains. In some cases, the infection can… ...

Doctors Doubt Safety Of Tamiflu

Doctors Doubt Safety Of Tamiflu

18 Jan 2012

Doctors questioned the effectiveness and safety of the main drug used to treat pandemic flu, in a report out Wednesday. ...

Balmy Winter Brings Economic Surprises

Balmy Winter Brings Economic Surprises

13 Jan 2012

…t buying cold medicine or getting as many flu shots. The weather has been so mild that…
…weather has hurt sales of cough, cold and flu products compared with last year. They are also giving fewer flu shots and filling fewer prescriptions. Walgreen… ...

The Geek Squad Fixes Your Hard…

12 Jan 2012

…background that got through Kaspersky's defenses. This does happen occasionally, because anti-virus software works more like a flu shot than a vaccine. It doesn't necessarily prevent you from getting infected; it just greatly reduces the chance of it… ...

U.S. Curbs Health Care Spending

U.S. Curbs Health Care Spending

09 Jan 2012

…percent of the total — grew at a historically low rate of 2.5 percent, due to an overall drop in visits and a milder 2010 flu season. But spending on dental care increased faster than in 2009. Prescription drugs, about 10 percent of overall spending… ...

Hong Kong on Alert Over Bird Flu

Hong Kong on Alert Over Bird Flu

03 Jan 2012

Health authorities in Hong Kong are urging residents to take steps to ensure personal hygiene, and the city remains on high alert following the bird flu-related death of a man in mainland China from a deadly strain of the virus. ...

FBI Joins Effort to Find Missing…

27 Dec 2011

…Journal Gazette reported that Aliahna and her sisters were staying with Plumadore because their mother had been sick with the flu and Aliahna's stepfather works at night and sleeps during the day. Plumadore told the newspaper Sunday that he left the three… ...

Terrorist Bird Flu Is Nothing to…

21 Dec 2011

…research on how to morph bird flu into human pandemics has ruffled…
…perspective. The 1918 “Spanish flu” claimed at least 50 million…
…certainly not the last. The 1958 influenza killed about 70,000 Americans. Ten years later, another influenza killed an estimated 34,000… ...

Lab-Made Bird Flu Details Kept Secret

Lab-Made Bird Flu Details Kept Secret

20 Dec 2011

The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people, and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that spread easier. ...

New England seal deaths linked to virus

New England seal deaths linked to virus

20 Dec 2011

Scientists say an influenza virus similar to one found in birds but never before found in harbor seals has been linked to the recent spate of seal deaths off the coast of northern New England. ...

Dogs Get the Flu, Too

Dogs Get the Flu , Too

20 Dec 2011

It is flu season, which means coughing, a runny nose, fever -- and maybe a trip to the veterinarian. ...

Cold and flu season: Extra precautions

Cold and flu season: Extra precautions

13 Dec 2011

Cold and flu season is here, and many people have already gotten their flu shots thinking now they are safe. But hold on, the flu shot is not the end all be all for everyone. ...

Living Well: Vitamin C study

Living Well: Vitamin C study

08 Dec 2011

So many of us take Vitamin C to prevent cold and flu, but now a new study reported on at this December's American Heart Association Scientific Session suggest that Vitamin C may… ...

US Tourist Dies on Cruise Ship in Rio

US Tourist Dies on Cruise Ship in Rio

22 Nov 2011

A US tourist died aboard a cruise liner of apparent cardiovascular problems and another 86 people on board were sickened by stomach flu, authorities said Tuesday. ...

Alaska Lashed by Savage Storm

Alaska Lashed by Savage Storm

10 Nov 2011

…110 miles (177km) north of Nome, there were fears the storm surge might reach a cemetery where villagers killed in the 1918 flu epidemic were buried. "That whole cemetery, especially the epidemic part of it where the mass grave is, is toward the beach… ...

NOAA looks into Influenza in seal deaths

NOAA looks into Influenza in seal deaths

04 Nov 2011

BOSTON - Federal officials are stepping up investigations into the deaths of 146 harbor seals along the New England coast since September after samples of five animals tested positive for the Influenza A virus. ...

Protesters Cope with Sanitation

Protesters Cope with Sanitation

27 Oct 2011

…person contact. Norovirus has caused outbreaks of gastroenteritis on cruise ships, for example, while adenovirus has caused influenza and other respiratory illnesses in military barracks. So far, no outbreaks of illness have been reported from the grassroots… ...

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Tough Cold Season

Tough Cold Season

Are you having trouble ditching your cold? Does it seem like everyone you know has been sick? It's been a very strange cold and flu season.

Wed, 8 Feb 2012
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“…everyone you know has been neck and a very strange cold and flu season a very long one as well George Morningstar Pollard Johnson of the division of women's health at Brigham and Women's Hospital. …”

“…to go into war yet and that's when we really colds and flu. . …”

“…all the part that is usually OK I have gotten the flu. . It's not out of the -- Don been there and then again and again. …”

“…Well either get you can get flu like only is over or other bar at -- you can get one after another. And you know when you when you when you get a flu or cold -- you think about all the way we fight infection you know an irony passages and you know being able …”

A Political Pioneer: Mayor White

A Political Pioneer: Mayor White

George Regan, former Press Secretary, took the time to meet with us in our Beacon Hill studio to discuss former Mayor White.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012
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“…today on the spot for country. I'm a little waterfront and develop flu clinic. Will -- you know walk those oral on down dilapidated warehouses. A whole new driver eight and you'll always pleased to …”

Patriots fans going to Indianapolis

Patriots fans going to Indianapolis

This is going to be a super Bowl to remember for 10 lucky Patriot fans selected by the Kraft family to fly to Indianapolis for the Super Bowl. These 10 folks are being honored by the team for their volunteerism. One of those winners, Whitney Hartwell, a teacher from Norfolk, stopped by the FOX 25 Morning News with her 7-year-old son, Timmy.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012
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“…nine we do a lot of strategy after I had the flu dress coat drive time. We do a lot of fundraising for different charities that. And I don't help him run at that …”

Man says he stabbed, dismembered woman

Man says he stabbed, dismembered woman

JOHNSTON, R.I. - A Rhode Island man is in police custody after firefighters found a woman's dismembered body at the scene of a house fire.

Mon, 23 Jan 2012
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“…power -- in tried to burn -- in the basement fireplace. The flu wasn't open the way in the mall filled the house the -- five year old -- at three year old daughter out …”

Donate Life: Sign up today

Donate Life: Sign up today

Nancy Michaels is a single mother of three and a successful business woman from Concord. But if it weren't for organ donation, she wouldn't be here.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012
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“…and it's finally got so bad that I thought I had the flu but literally I couldn't get off an airplane and had -- taken up by a wheelchair -- Fort -- ended -- in …”

Post-Holiday Fire Safety: Important Tips

Post-Holiday Fire Safety: Important Tips

Canton Fire Chief and educator Charles Doody says there are lots of reasons home fires happen in the winter, but he wants to make sure your family doesn't become victims.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011
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“…Coming out at closing and let things sometimes to get the flu yeah -- need to expose -- …”