flu

Our hearts and hopes extend to any who may have been infected. Here's what the CDC recommends we do to keep our friends and families safe.

With the kids back in school this week, you know the germs will be coming back to the house at some point. But there are at least five things we can do to ward off the flu before it gets a grip.

If this one pill can knock out my fever, headache, and cough, isn’t that better? Not necessarily.

We see hand sanitizer everywhere and many of us take travel bottles with us wherever we go. But is it as effective as washing your hands with soap and water?

Have you ever gone to work with the flu?

Here comes flu season, and keeping your co-workers' germs away involves more than a quick squirt of hand sanitizer. There's an art to killing viruses, and it requires more patience than we've had so far.

Maybe you call it something else, the 'coldbuster,' or the 'medicine ball,' but it's a fan favorite.

More schools are closing because of the Flu!

When you're sick, you want comfort food that helps you heal. Read this for quick and easy chicken soup, avocado toast and my aunt's go-to get-well casserole.

The Tyler Public Library is teaming up with the Children's Defense Fund to host the “Connecting Kids To Coverage” Health and Resource Fair, this Saturday, December 1, 2018 from 10:30 a. m. to 1:15 p.m. at 201 South College Street in downtown Tyler. Flu shots will be available.

If you made it through the last flu season without missing a day of work or school, you're one of the few. The flu vaccine that was supposed to keep us from getting sick was only 36 percent effective last time around, but the CDC says they've tweaked it to be more effective this year. Hope so!

One minute she was doing her homework and playing, and within an hour or two she was complaining of being cold and achy, so I took her temperature. It was 104.4! What happened next taught me something.