flu

Our hearts and hopes extend to any who may have been infected. Here's what the CDC recommends we do to keep our friends and families safe.

With the kids back in school this week, you know the germs will be coming back to the house at some point. But there are at least five things we can do to ward off the flu before it gets a grip.

If this one pill can knock out my fever, headache, and cough, isn’t that better? Not necessarily.

We see hand sanitizer everywhere and many of us take travel bottles with us wherever we go. But is it as effective as washing your hands with soap and water?

Here comes flu season, and keeping your co-workers' germs away involves more than a quick squirt of hand sanitizer. There's an art to killing viruses, and it requires more patience than we've had so far.

When you're sick, you want comfort food that helps you heal. Read this for quick and easy chicken soup, avocado toast and my aunt's go-to get-well casserole.

If you made it through the last flu season without missing a day of work or school, you're one of the few. The flu vaccine that was supposed to keep us from getting sick was only 36 percent effective last time around, but the CDC says they've tweaked it to be more effective this year. Hope so!

One minute she was doing her homework and playing, and within an hour or two she was complaining of being cold and achy, so I took her temperature. It was 104.4! What happened next taught me something.

The flu epidemic in Texas continues. A Dallas man will have his fingers amputated and a Forth Worth man has had both of his feet and his fingers amputated due to complications from the flu.

East Texas has been hit hard with influenza this year. So hard, that local hospitals are following medical divert protocols.

It doesn't take long for the flu to work its way through the house or the office and knock people out, but if we eat certain foods we'll say healthy and and win the battle.

Local news forecasts say East Texas may be at below freezing temperatures for 40 straight hours starting Sunday.