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 ...

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 ...

Dear Doctors: 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 her nose and throat. That’s a common ...

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 ...

The common cold is appropriately named. According to the American Lung Association, adults get an average of two to four colds per year while children typically get between six and eight colds ...