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

Jan. 20, 2025, marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.

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.

Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with COVID. Hayes is too sick to work, so she has spent much of the last four years sitting on her beige couch, often curled up under an electric blanket.

Have your child lie down and rest until all symptoms have cleared. Note: mild headache, mild dizziness and nausea are common. Allow your child to sleep if he wants to, but keep him nearby. Wake him up after 2 hours of sleeping. Check that he is alert and ...

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.

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,

“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.

President Trump is expected to sign four executive orders that would shake up the military, impacting transgender people in the ranks and reinstating service members booted for failing to get ...

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

HealthDay News — The risk for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is increased following COVID-19, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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