One of the best ways to avoid getting sick is quite simple, according to Prianka Chawla, MD, Primary Care Physician at Tufts Medical Center: Keep your distance from people who are sick. But because of ...

The good news is that most cases of whooping cough are preventable with DTaP vaccines in childhood and Tdap shots at age 11 ...

The most common infections are of viral etiology. Most common viral agents responsible are respiratory syncitial virus (RSV A-B), adenovirus, influenza viruses A-B and para influenza virus (PIV 1-4).

ONE of the UK's most common bugs almost triples the risk of ... its symptoms are so mild they're often mistaken for a cold. Adults with severe RSV face worse health outcomes for up to a year ...

The season kicked off with “Common People,” an “incredibly bleak” start to the seventh installment about a married couple, whose life gets turned upside down when the wife, Amanda ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

The symptoms are runny nose, dry cough, and sore throat. But with the common cold, there are also some common myths that come with it. For example, did you know that you can get a cold year-round ...

Beta Film has struck a major deal on the Mafia series “Cold Summer” with Walter Presents for the U.S. and Canada, ahead of its linear premiere in the U.K. on Channel 4 on April 13, with the ...

The common cold, which can be caused by one of over 200 different respiratory viruses, typically lasts seven to 10 days. You will know when your cold is nearly over when your symptoms, such as body ...

Common over-the-counter anti-inflammatory painkillers like ibuprofen and aspirin can damage the kidney tubules – tiny tubes in the kidneys that return filtered nutrients and fluids back to the blood.

Cold air has us in its grip, with the coldest temperatures all week coming on Wednesday morning. That has prompted a freeze warning for the metro New York City area as low temperatures are ...

For many people, frequent bloating has little to do with gas or stool; it could be an abnormal muscle response, researchers in my field have come to understand. (Getty Images) ...