If you feel ill but your symptoms are only above the neck — a stuffy nose, a bit of a sore throat — you could just have a common cold, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at ...

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The holiday season brings families together but, with travel and cold weather, the holiday season also brings unwanted ...

As families gather for Thanksgiving, here's what to know to protect your family from the new subclade K flu strain.

"Usually, when we think about the common cold, it's a virus," Dr Cheryl Lythgoe of Benenden Health explains to Yahoo UK. "With viruses, we can pick them up anywhere, really. They can live on surfaces ...

IT’S that time of year when countless illnesses are flying around, from coughs and colds to Covid and flu. Most of the time, these pesky bugs clear up on their own – it just requires ...

The bottom line: While echinacea supplements could play a role in boosting your immune system, it’s hard to definitively say ...

COVID-19 is back, and so are other seasonal viruses. One of the things people are getting confused with is whether their symptoms are of common cold, flu, or COVID? Is there a way to tell which one do ...

The CDC monitors respiratory illness activity by looking at a range of diagnoses from emergency department (ED) visits, ...

A cold is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract, also called an upper respiratory infection or URI. According to ...

FOR some people, it starts with a scratchy throat followed by a tickly cough. For others, a headache comes first, before a ...