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

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

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

Right now, a number of viruses are causing a host of upper respiratory symptoms, including congestion, coughs, fever, body ...

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

This brings new meaning to under the weather. With flu cases climbing this winter season rapidly and record low temps on the ...

Before germs were first spied under a microscope by Robert Koch, a doctor from East Prussia, catching colds was blamed on evil spirits, foul weather, and medical enigmas such as blood impurities. Koch ...

Share on Pinterest Commuters at London King’s Cross railway station on Monday, July 19, 2021. Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images Other strains of human coronaviruses, such as those that cause the ...

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

Influenza is on the rise. Flu activity was "high" or "very high" in 32 states and jurisdictions, as of Dec. 30, according to ...

Respiratory viruses are usually most active from October through March, health officials say.