Thanks to advances in treatment options, a COVID-19 diagnosis is no longer as scary as it once was, at least for most people.

Haywood County's medical director Dr. Mark Jaben says that normally, the season starts in November to early December. But this season, Jaben says, the flu started around Christmas and the number of cases went straight up.

The risk for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is increased following COVID-19, according to a study.

With a recent surge in influenza, COVID-19, norovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and other respiratory viruses, it's critical to pay close attention to your heart and symptoms—especially if you have heart disease or the risk factors for it.

“Taken together, these results indicate that, once PNP or NNP patients develop neuro-PASC, whether they contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection prior to, or after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination makes little difference in their clinical presentation, subjective alteration of quality of life or objective cognitive dysfunction,” the authors write.

Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, with Dartmouth Health, is answering viewer questions as winter illnesses continue to spread.

Compared with adults aged 65 and older, those aged 18 to 64 are more affected by long COVID neurologic symptoms.

Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.

A variety of viruses are circulating across Northeast Mississippi this winter, and their treatment differs from bacterial infections.

William Schaffner: Norovirus is an intestinal virus that can make you very, very sick. It is indelicately called winter vomiting disease, and it begins suddenly, often with an explosive vomit that then repeats itself.

In the midst of pandemic upheaval, researchers have gained fundamental insights about how the body fends off infections.

Two-thirds of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome have persistent, objective symptoms – including reduced physical exercise capacity and reduced cognitive test performances – for a year or more, with no major changes in symptom clusters during the second year of their illness,