A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people ...

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

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Researchers grew nasal tissue in a lab to unlock clues about how your body battles the common cold.

A new study suggests the answer may come down to what happens inside your snoot. Researchers found that how cells in the ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

Florida reported 20 outbreaks of flu in 12 counties Jan. 4-10. What to know about symptoms, when to call a doctor.

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen. Viruses ...

The common cold is typically caused by viruses, most often rhinoviruses, which infect the upper respiratory tract (nose and throat). 1 Zinc has been reported to block the replication of rhinovirus. By ...