In this post-pandemic world, many have become hyperaware of illness around them — giving rise to stigma at even the slightest sign of a cold. Now, a simple cough, sniffle or sneeze can reduce someone ...

People with respiratory infections can easily contaminate surfaces such as furnishings, carpets, and personal fabrics when they sneeze or cough on them directly, according to research by Reckitt's ...

It’s the season for sneezing, coughing and sore throats. Do you schedule a doctor’s appointment or handle it yourself?

Cooler weather inevitably means cough, cold and flu season. It’s never too late to take precautions and set yourself up with healthy habits. “As much as we try, avoiding viruses, bacteria and germs to ...

As frigid temperatures chill Valley residents, doctors are answering an age-old question: Can being out in the cold really ...

In the winter months, it seems few are safe from some kind of illness — flu, COVID-19, norovirus, colds. While many of the germs that cause this misery can circulate throughout the year, scientists ...

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 ...

Grandma’s warnings about catching a cold walking barefoot on a chilly floor or going outside with wet hair have some truth. Colder temperatures, especially in winter months, won’t cause a common cold.

Post-pandemic, winter has become one big blur of coughs and colds. Did something change? By Knvul Sheikh These days, the background music of my life is a chorus of coughing and sneezing. At work, ...

Sneezing and coughing are two different ways of accomplishing the same. One involves the nose and mucus, the other the mouth and mucus, but both are defensive respiratory reflexes designed to expel ...