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

A common cold affects people differently. While some suffer from mild symptoms, for others, it can be life-threatening. A new ...

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 ...

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

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold air, sleeping in a chilly room, getting caught in cold rain or snow, or ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's cold and flu season again. (Getty Images) (HUIZENG HU via Getty Images) This time of year, there are a number of viruses ...

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 ...

(WYTV)- You just know when a cold is coming on. There’s that little feeling that you’re in trouble, and it’s going to last at ...

My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. It stayed in her nose and throat. That’s a common cold, right? Why is having a cold so different from when you get the flu?

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 ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work together to fight the virus by triggering an arsenal of antiviral defenses. In a ...