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When most people hear sports medicine, they picture athletic trainers sprinting onto a football field or doctors working the sidelines on game day. Sports medicine has far less to do with jerseys and stadiums and a lot more to do with everyday life.   Vincent Shaw,...

How to tell the difference between novel coronavirus, flu, allergies and the common cold.

January brings hope. But by the second Friday of the new year, often dubbed Quitter’s Day, many people begin drifting away from their New Year’s resolutions.   That’s not because you lack willpower. It's because change is hard and habits take time to build. The good...

Louisiana often sees respiratory viruses ramp up early, and flu activity can reach high levels quickly once the season begins. Pediatric infectious disease specialists say that when flu and RSV start circulating at the same time, as they often do in the colder months,...