woman with incurable cancer dies, fight continues to get provincial funding for expensive drug treatment The family of a young Kitchener ... hospital has Canada's first human case of H5N1 avian flu.

Viruses are the fastest-evolving biological entity on Earth. This fact explains why we need flu shots every year: Seasonal ...

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

Protection from shots like the flu vaccine typically takes a couple of weeks to kick in, so getting one now may offer ...

Experts and health authorities say that while the risk of human infection with the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza remains ...

Health officials were struggling to answer a broader and potentially worrisome question: how the infection occurred.

Taking antibiotics while ill with the flu may increase the risk of developing bacterial pneumonia, according to new findings from researchers at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai. Researchers found that ...