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Fluticasone propionate, sold under the brand names Flovent and Flonase among others, is a glucocorticoid steroid medication. [8] When inhaled it is used for the long term management of asthma and COPD. [8] In the nose it is used for hay fever and nasal polyps. [9] [10] It can also be used for mouth ulcers. [11] It works by decreasing inflammation.
[3] [2] [4] [6] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [7] In 2022, it was the 25th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 22 million prescriptions, [8] [9] although it is also sold over-the-counter (OTC). [10]
MedImmune is one company that manufactures the live attenuated influenza vaccine, which it sells under the brand name FluMist in the United States, Canada, and Japan, [25] and the brand name Fluenz Tetra [6] in the UK and European Union. For the 2010–2011 flu season, FluMist was the only live attenuated influenza vaccine approved by the FDA ...
Covid and flu shots can be administered at the same time Health experts expect flu and Covid to deliver a one-two punch during the fall and winter, as they have in past years.
Treatments for influenza include a range of medications and therapies that are used in response to disease influenza.Treatments may either directly target the influenza virus itself; or instead they may just offer relief to symptoms of the disease, while the body's own immune system works to recover from infection.
During last year’s flu season, there were at least 35 million illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations, and 25,000 deaths from the flu, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
"The perfect time to get vaccinated against flu is right before cases start to take off," says Dr. Kawsar Talaat, associate professor in international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
During the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, "Pharmacists tried everything they knew, everything they had ever heard of, from the ancient art of bleeding patients, to administering oxygen, to developing new vaccines and serums (chiefly against what we call Hemophilus influenzae – a name derived from the fact that it was originally considered the etiological agent – and several types ...