Patients hospitalized for influenza are just as likely as those admitted for COVID-19 to have signs of myocardial involvement, according to a study out Ontario, Canada. Though patients with COVID-19 ...

A major review shows flu and COVID-19 infections can sharply raise short-term risks of heart attacks and strokes, with ...

The United States may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year ...

Influenza vaccination is associated with a lower risk of dementia in patients with heart failure, according to a study in more than 20 000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd ...

A new study released by the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran suggests that getting a flu shot could help reduce a person's risk of having a heart attack. The findings were ...

People who haven't gotten COVID-19 or flu shots this fall might be motivated by new research that shows viral infections increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. People are three times more ...

Every August, primary care doctors stock their clinics with influenza vaccines and start reminding patients to get their annual shot. We usually tell patients, “The flu vaccine can reduce your risk of ...

ORLANDO — In patients with heart failure, getting the flu vaccine reduces the risk for dying of any cause during flu season and during the rest of the year, as well as the risk for being hospitalized ...