Thanks to advances in treatment options, a COVID-19 diagnosis is no longer as scary as it once was, at least for most people.

As part of the Dollar Energy Fund Cool Down for Warmth, First Alert Meteorologist Ron Smiley is breaking down the signs and symptoms of hypothermia and frostbite.

Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with COVID. Hayes is too sick to work, so she has spent much of the last four years sitting on her beige couch, often curled up under an electric blanket.

Haywood County's medical director Dr. Mark Jaben says that normally, the season starts in November to early December. But this season, Jaben says, the flu started around Christmas and the number of cases went straight up.

Researchers tracking nearly 1,000 individuals with post-COVID-19 syndrome observed minimal changes in their symptoms during the second year of the illness. A new study published in the open-access jou

HealthDay News — The risk for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is increased following COVID-19, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

“Taken together, these results indicate that, once PNP or NNP patients develop neuro-PASC, whether they contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection prior to, or after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination makes little difference in their clinical presentation, subjective alteration of quality of life or objective cognitive dysfunction,” the authors write.

Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, a new study finds, with the highest risk in women ages 40 to 54. Women with long COVID are more likely to have gastrointestinal issues and hair loss, while men are more susceptible to libido changes and depression.

A variety of viruses are circulating across Northeast Mississippi this winter, and their treatment differs from bacterial infections. Dr. John Cantrell, an urgent care doctor at the Fulton Medical Clinic,

Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, with Dartmouth Health, is answering viewer questions as winter illnesses continue to spread.

Compared with adults aged 65 and older, those aged 18 to 64 are more affected by long COVID neurologic symptoms.

William Schaffner: Norovirus is an intestinal virus that can make you very, very sick. It is indelicately called winter vomiting disease, and it begins suddenly, often with an explosive vomit that then repeats itself.