Colds and Flu

Learn strategies to prevent the common cold and flu.

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Prepare yourself for the return of cold and flu season with expert advice and tips to help you strengthen your immunity and stay healthy. These easy strategies for preventing and treating influenza may even keep you out of the doctor's office!

Stay Healthy This Season

  1. Swine Flu & You: Info on Influenza, Plus 10 Protect-Yourself Tips
  2. Modern Medicine: Can a Pill Prevent the Flu?
  3. Make the Call : Should You Take a Sick Day?
  4. Health Update: Flu Shot, or Not?
  5. Remedies: Steps to Take Now
  6. A Gaggle of Gargles: Soothe a Sore Throat

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Flu Prevention: 5 Critical Lessons from History and What They Mean Today
Flu Prevention: 5 Critical Lessons from History and What They Mean Today

It's just about impossible to predict what a flu virus is going to do. But history offers a critical guide anyway, showing public health officials which moves are likely to pay off in the battle against the disease.

Swine Flu and You: Information on Influenza and Protect-Yourself Tips
Swine Flu and You: Information on Influenza and Protect-Yourself Tips

Learn more about swine flu, influenza, and how to safeguard your health.

4 Ways to Strengthen Your Immune System
Must Read 4 Ways to Strengthen Your Immune System

Hype about immune boosters can end up putting a real pinch your wallet. Here are tips you can bank on.

The Anti-Flu Diet
The Anti-Flu Diet

Increase your odds of staying well this winter with quercetin.

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