Cold & Flu: Overview

  • Ixabepilone

    11/05/07, Healthwise

    Before you receive ixabepilone, tell your doctor if you have liver or heart disease, nerve problems in your hands or feet, diabetes, or bone marrow suppression.

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  • Coughs

    02/25/08, Healthwise

    Coughing is the body's way of removing foreign material or mucus from the lungs and upper airway passages or of reacting to an irritated airway. Coughs have distinctive traits you can learn to recognize. A cough is only a symptom, not a d

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  • Fever, Age 4 and Older

    04/24/07, Healthwise

    Fever is the body's normal and healthy reaction to infection and other illnesses, both minor and serious. It helps the body fight infection. Fever is a symptom, not a disease. In most cases, having a fever means you have a minor illness.

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  • Whooping Cough (Pertussis) - Topic Overview

    01/04/08, Healthwise

    Whooping cough is a disease that causes very severe coughing that may last for months. You can cough so hard that you hurt a rib.

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  • Sinusitis - Topic Overview

    08/15/08, Healthwise

    Sinusitis is infection or inflammation of the lining of the sinus cavities. These are hollow spaces in your cheeks and around your eyes. Sinus infections often follow a cold and cause pain and pressure in your head and face.

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  • Sore Throat

    02/25/08, Healthwise

    Sore throats can be painful and annoying. Fortunately, most sore throats are caused by a minor illness and go away without medical treatment.

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  • Influenza - Topic Overview

    07/31/08, Healthwise

    Influenza (flu) is a viral infection. People often use the term "flu" to describe any kind of mild illness, such as a cold or a stomach virus, that has symptoms like the flu. But the real flu is different. Flu symptoms are usually wor

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  • Noroviruses (Norwalk Viruses)

    02/23/09, Healthwise

    Noroviruses belong to a family of viruses that cause the "stomach flu." Noroviruses are also called Norwalk-like viruses and caliciviruses. Stomach flu is also called gastroenteritis, food infection, food poisoning, and acute nonbacte

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  • Colds

    02/25/08, Healthwise

    What are colds?

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  • Bendroflumethiazide and nadolol

    11/09/07, Healthwise

    Before using this medication, tell your doctor if you have congestive heart failure, kidney or liver disease, cirrhosis, asthma or bronchospasm, gout, lupus, diabetes, a thyroid disorder, or if you are allergic to sulfa drugs.

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