How many times have you dismissed sniffles as "just a cold," and carried on with a stuffed nose and sinuses assuming that the symptoms would eventually run their course, perhaps a bit more quickly with a few doses of Mom's homemade chicken soup?
Influenza is another story. The common cold eventually fizzles, but the flu may be deadly. Some
that claimed between 20 and 100 million lives. The best defense against it: a
. Yet barely 30 percent of 4,000 U.S. adults surveyed said they'd been inoculated this season, despite a
, according to a new
. (GlaxoSmithKline, which makes flu vaccine, Continue reading