“The flu,” or as it is medically known “influenza,” is a viral infection typically caused by either by influenza virus A or influenza virus B. Symptoms such as body aches, chills, potential fever and a persistent cough can mean that you are coming down with a case of the flu. Influenza is the most common during winter months, but you

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Fall brings brisk weather, a rush of school activities and the start of the cold and flu season. As always, prevention of the common cold is much better than heading to the medicine chest for your favorite cold remedies. Here are a number of tricks to help you, and the rest of your family, prepare for the cold and flu season this year. Keep

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All of you reading this blog have read in one place or another about the importance of keeping your computer safe from viruses that are capable of turning your computer into a useless brick. We always concern ourselves with sensitive digital information being syphoned to an outside malicious source. In our pursuit of digital safety, we often

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Who Needs a Flu Shot?

Is it possible that you could use another shot? It is possible but, like all shots, this one will protect you from a pretty terrible illness called influenza or the “flu.” In a healthy person, the flu causes a fever; aches in the body; symptoms that mimic the common cold or even just a nagging headache. A person with

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Are you able to easily identify common flu symptoms? Are you able to explain how the flu is different from a common cold? Learn more about flu symptoms, types and potential treatments for certain symptoms so you understand what you are up against this flu season. Discover the warning signs of more serious problems that manifest with influenza,

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What are “seasonal flu vaccines?”

You will often hear people discussing the “flu shot,” which is actually one of two types of influenza vaccines that protect against the seasonal bouts of the “flu.”

The influenza vaccine (flu shot) is an inactivate vaccine, which is given by needle injection to the arm and contains a dead form of

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The symptoms of the common cold and influenza (the flu) are both very similar, yet treatments differ. It is important to know the difference between the two, so that an effective form of treatment can be implemented. The flu can be treated with certain prescription medications, but the common cold is something that patients typically need to

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Tampa Florida (PRWEB) August 13, 2012

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This blog article deviates from our typical “modus operandi,” a phrase that all of you will know from television as “M.O.” or I could just say “we are aiming this one at the kids.” My reasoning is simple, it’s back to school time and I’m still young enough to know that we’ve got a few kids who will work to hit perfect attendance

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Influenza, commonly referred to as “the flu,” is a viral infection typically caused either influenza virus A or influenza virus B. Symptoms such as aches, chills, possible fever and a persistent cough can mean that you're coming down with a case of the flu. Common during the winter months, influenza can strike at any time during the year,

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I had to listen to a mix tape of “I don’t have one” and “I just may be dying” today.

There wasn’t an actual tape that I was listening to, but there was a mother claiming that her sniffles were both “nothing” and the “end of the world” over a span of several hours. It was like having a living/breathing Google session in my

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Being the curator of a blog discussing technological medical advances, I felt obligated to attend the premier of the film Prometheus on Friday evening. I know that my plan was simply a thinly veiled attempt to escape my computer  and talk of telemedicine for a few hours, but I was tired and I bought the logic.

For those of you unfamiliar

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In a drastic move to protect the health and wellness of our MD247 telemedicine program members, we issued an official retraction of our March 26, 2012 nationally distributed press release. The retracted health and wellness oriented press release was entitled “Telemedicine Specialist MD247.COM Provides Female Program Members with Information about Heart Attack Symptoms.”

The March 26, 2012 press release detailed the medical symptoms a woman might experience when suffering a heart attack, and it was meant to serve as an informative and direction providing guide for female readers. The MD247 telemedicine team determined that it was preferable to have program members contact the 24/7 Talk to a Doctor Hotline, or the 24/7 Talk to a Nurse Hotline to discuss non-emergency medical questions regarding potential cardiac symptoms.

MD247 reminds all readers that the telemedicine program is unable to address medical emergency questions, and any/all such questions must be directed toward local immediate emergency assistance.

The telemedicine services MD247 provides are meant to serve as a “supplement” or “enhancing” agent for traditional healthcare policies. MD247 telemedicine is never meant to serve as a replacement for ANY traditional healthcare policy.

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A recent article created in collaboration between Kaiser Health News and USA Today inspired us to pull together an article discussing a little bit about why insurers are now embracing telemedicine for plan members.

Once it was thought that insurers would never embrace the idea of a virtual doctor appointment for their plan participants. Reticence

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“It’s the Wild, Wild West when it comes to prices of anything in the U.S. healthcare system, whether for a doctor visit or for hospital charges,” said Jonathan S. Skinner, a health economist at Dartmouth.

The older readers of the MD247 telemedicine blog will inevitably remember a time when a visit to the doctor, a visit to the hospital or a

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Tampa, Florida (PRWEB) May 08, 2012

Telemedicine provider MD247 is a first of its kind 24/7 Talk to a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse service which was established for the purpose of providing average people a supplement to either bolster their traditional healthcare coverage. The telemedicine service company informed the press on Tuesday that it would be gravitating away from a traditional print marketing method, placing an emphasis on first person interaction through grass roots campaigns and one on one social media contact. MD247 intends to make these modifications to a traditional marketing plan in order to pass along savings directly to the telemedicine program participants on a daily basis.

The “biggest” attention grabber on the streets in the grass roots marketing campaign is a vehicle deemed the “MD247 Telemedicine Mobile Marketing Vehicle.” The “MD247 Telemedicine Mobile Marketing Vehicle” is a model year 2001 Ford Excursion, with 10” lifts and a “car wrap” which advertises both MD247 and a charitable organization called 50 Legs.

50 Legs is a charitable organization established with the purpose of providing a prosthetic leg to an underprivileged child who has suffered either a debilitating accident, birth defect or disease causing the loss of a leg. You can learn more about 50 Legs by visiting http://www.50legs.com.

MD247 (MD247.COM; MD 247; M.D. 247; MD-247) provides discounted supplementary healthcare options, which are intended to enhance quality of life for telemedicine healthcare program members. MD247 has 25,000 telemedicine program members nationwide, employs close to 200 people and devotes a large amount of time and money toward charitable organizations. The MD247 telemedicine program headquarters is in Tampa Bay Florida.

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The field of medicine is constantly evolving. Barbers once learned the art of surgery, antibiotics were eventually released on a wide scale for the treatment of infections caused by bacteria and then medicine hit warp speed with technological advances. With current smart phone technology it is possible to monitor everything from a

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Acute bronchitis is most often caused by a virus, frequently the same one that causes colds, although the flu virus is a common culprit as well. Acute bronchitis often follows a cold or the flu, when resistance is down and the lungs may already be slightly irritated. Likewise, anyone whose immune resistance is low or who has any other type of

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What Is the Flu?
The flu, more scientifically known as influenza, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by influenza viruses. The influenza virus usually enters the body through mucus membranes in the mouth, nose, or eyes.

When a person with the flu coughs or sneezes, the virus then becomes airborne and can be inhaled by anyone

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When you have a cold or the flu, it's common to lose your appetite.  When you are ill, however, you may not take in enough liquids as well.  When you lose more water than you take in, you can get dehydrated. Infants and children are at greater risk because of their smaller size. If you also have fever, diarrhea or vomiting, the risk of

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The flu tends to come on suddenly, you're fine in the morning and aching and shivering that night, while a cold usually develops gradually over the course of two or three days. Flu usually causes a fever and aches, while a cold usually doesn't cause a fever and aches. Other symptoms of the flu include headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat,

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We've all been there: seated next to a sneezing, coughing person with no escape route available, worried that the next day we'll be the one hacking. But the truth is, catching an illness can't always be blamed on the obvious offenders.

Though you can pick up germs just about anywhere (disturbingly, viruses can linger on surfaces such as

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