The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that ...

Who knows why different people have different symptoms with the common cold? Well, a new study used laboratory-grown noses ...

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

The common cold looks trivial compared with illnesses that fill intensive care units, yet it still knocks out workers, empties classrooms and costs health systems huge sums every winter. Despite ...

Winter is synonymous with holidays, snow and, of course, the common cold. Though colds are not exclusive to winter, they tend to be more common in the colder months of the year, when people typically ...

My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. We were worried that it was going to turn into a bad respiratory illness, but it stayed in ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows more people are coming down with the common cold. Right now, according to the research, cases are at their ...

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...

Flu, COVID-19, the common cold and RSV have similarities, but they differ in their severity, contagiousness and symptoms. Vaccines are available for COVID-19, the flu and RSV. However, there is no ...

A sweeping analysis of more than a thousand patients finds that antibiotics offer no relief for viral colds or purulent nasal discharge, while increasing side effects. Study: Antibiotics for the ...

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