Shift work and night work are associated with an increased risk for the common cold and several other infections among nurses.

Ice baths have become increasingly popular over the past few years. Fitness enthusiasts and casual exercisers around the ...

Cold germs from someone’s nose or cough can live on surfaces for hours to days, depending on many factors. Learn which ...

Adults on average get one or two colds per year, with children getting up to six, and they usually last four to five days. The symptoms are runny nose, dry cough, and sore throat. But with the common ...

A new study examining the effects of sleep patterns and shift work on the immune system has found that sleep debt and night ...

San Gabriel Valley areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being done to prepare? And what do survivors of a catastrophic ...

H. Andrewes, of the National Institute for Medical Research, is an admirable summary of the essential features of our knowledge of that world-wide scourge, the common cold ; and nobody is better ...

In Trump’s first weeks back in office, references to common sense littered his executive orders and his speeches to both domestic and international audiences. He cited common sense when ...

When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you temporarily feel better. Unfortunately a lot of remedies are placebos ...

Mucus can increase significantly during an upper respiratory tract infection (URT)). When you get a common cold or some other URTI the body will respond by triggering inflammation. Inflammation is the ...