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

Using a laboratory model of the human nose, scientists have investigated why the severity of common-cold infections varies so ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

Scientists have identified 22 genes that explain why one common virus leaves many people unharmed but puts others at risk of ...

Those who have a specific antibody that is produced following infection from a common virus may be at greater risk of developing certain cancers, a new study from the International Agency for Research ...

Few viruses are as widespread—and sometimes misunderstood—as the human papillomavirus, or HPV. It's so common that most of us—up to 80%—will encounter it at some point in our lives, often without even ...

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

Two cases have been detected in India among health care workers.

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries, including Thailand, ...

Daniel Wrapp, an assistant professor in medicine at Duke University, shared how he helped find the first human antibodies ...