Sentences with phrase «protects against the flu»

The orange juice and zest pair beautifully with ginger, but we really love the addition of goji berries, which may help protect against the flu.1 Then there's the crunchy green pistachios for a little more fiber and protein.

You ′ ve done your homework, researching and interviewing to find the best care for your child, but is your caregiver — nanny, babysitter, daycare worker or family member — protected against the flu?

The single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each year.

«Getting vaccinated is the first and most important step in protecting against the flu and its complications,» said Dr. Joan H. Facelle, Rockland County Commissioner of Health.

With no head in place to hoard the immune response, the vaccine might coax the body to make enough stem - focused antibodies to protect against flu, the researchers hoped, regardless of the seasonal mutations occurring at the top.

«We see clinical potential in the finding that therapeutic estrogens that are used for treating infertility and menopause may also protect against the flu.»

Getting your flu shot is still the best way to protect yourself against the flu — yes, even if it's late in flu season.

The herb, elderberry, has been proven to protect against the flu — but whether it confers protection against swine flu is unknown.

Aim for 8 - 10 hours per night to give your immune system the help it needs to protect against the flu.

Not exact matches

Another caveat: It is still possible to contract the flu after getting a flu shot since the vaccine you receive may not protect against all strains.

By 2008, kids were protected against 14 vaccine - preventable diseases by getting up to 36 doses of 10 vaccines before starting kindergarten — three doses of HepB, three doses of Rotavirus, five doses of DTaP, three or four doses of Hib, four doses of Prevnar 7, four doses of IPV, two doses of MMR, two doses of chicken pox, two doses of hepatitis A, and six to seven doses of the flu vaccine.

2016a Protecting against influenza (flu): advice for caregivers of young children.

The Hep B vaccine (or HBV) protects against the virus that causes hepatitis B; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach flu.

The 2012 - 2013 flu vaccine will protect against the three flu viruses that experts predicted will be the most common during this year's flu season.

The flu vaccine can protect against several strains of the flu virus.

«Early fall is a great time to protect your children against the flu.

Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive).

National Immunization Awareness Month is the perfect opportunity to make sure adults are protected against diseases like flu, whooping cough, tetanus, shingles and pneumococcal disease.

Even unvaccinated people who have already gotten the flu still benefit from vaccination since the vaccine protects against 3 different flu viruses.

Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive) and the vaccine is readily available in Erie County physicians» offices, pharmacies and other community sites.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Westchester County Health Department is offering residents the opportunity this month to get free flu shots, along with vaccines to protect against six other diseases at its Yonkers and White Plains clinics.

Annual flu vaccines are formulated to protect against one type of influenza B and two strains of influenza A, one H3N2 strain and one H1N1 strain.

Each year, scientists create an influenza (flu) vaccine that protects against a few specific influenza strains that researchers predict are going to be the most common during that year.

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

Dr Derek Gatherer of Lancaster University said: «Every year we have a round of flu vaccination, where we choose a recent strain of flu as the vaccine, hoping that it will protect against next year's strains.

These antibodies protect against certain strains of influenza virus in the vaccine, but may not provide thorough protection against other strains of flu that may be present.

The method is relatively new, but far bacteria - based vaccines have proven effective: A seasonal flu vaccine produced by VaxInnate successfully protected humans in clinical trials, and the company's recently tested swine flu vaccine immunized mice against the virus.

One reason vaccines using weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the immune response necessary to protect against the virus.

This one - two punch protected the test subjects against influenza A viruses that had emerged in 1934 and 2007, and other experiments showed that the antibodies it generated successfully neutralized a wide variety of flu strains.

This could curb seasonal flu annually and protect people against future pandemics.»

None of the available swine flu vaccines can protect against all these strains.

However, researchers are working to develop universal vaccines that could protect against multiple flu strains without needing to be updated.

Not only were the mice protected from lethal doses of flu virus, but the protection was also in large part due to the absence of familiar antibodies against the head, the researchers found.

Studies have shown that flu vaccines work better at protecting against influenza B or influenza A H1N1 viruses than influenza A H3N2.

Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalus) mushrooms (left) could protect against bird flu, swine flu and smallpox.

Public health experts have long fantasized about giving people one jab that would safely last a lifetime and protect against all kinds of flu.

Investigators showed the new strategy protected mice — vaccinated against the H3N2 influenza A flu strain, which causes mild disease — from succumbing to the more dangerous H5N1 and H7N9 strains weeks later.

«In resource - poor settings, vaccinating mothers against flu can protect newborns too, new study finds that.»

Researchers around the world, including at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), are pursuing a «universal» flu vaccine, one that would protect against most or all seasonal and pandemic strains of the flu virus.

Seasonal flu vaccines may protect individuals not only against the strains of flu they contain but also against many additional types, according to a study published this week in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

According to WHO statistics, 300 million people are vaccinated against the flu each year, receiving an immunization with a cocktail of weakened strains of influenza A (varieties H3N2 and H1N1), along with the influenza B virus to protect against a full infection.

The study focused on a flu vaccine designed to protect against an unusual strain that originated in pigs and caused a pandemic in 2009.

That means that an antibody that recognizes this region alone could protect against a variety of flu strains, possibly including the one that causes avian flu, the researchers conclude.

As anyone who's gotten sick despite a flu shot knows, a vaccine that protects against one strain of a pathogen doesn't necessarily protect against the others.

Efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine may have stalled, but the research has revealed an antibody that protects against several lethal flu strains

In another development, doctors announced last week that, for the first time, an experimental vaccine appears to protect some people against the H5N1 avian flu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the Cooflu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the CooFlu Flies the Coop).

NOSE GUARD Following a bout of the flu, the nose makes specialized immune cells that can protect against the illness, a new study in mice suggests.

Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad immunity, protecting against current and future strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.

This could curb seasonal flu annually and protect people against future pandemics,» Prof Lalvani said.

January 10, 2011 H1N1 pandemic points to vaccine strategy for multiple flu strains Although the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic infected an estimated 60 million people and hospitalized more than 250,000 in the United States, it also brought one significant benefit — clues about how to make a vaccine that could protect against multiple strains of influenza.