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

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

A common cold can feel like a small thing until it is not. One day you feel fine, and the next you wake up congested, drained ...

Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

Daniel Wrapp, an assistant professor in medicine at Duke University, shared how he helped find the first human antibodies ...

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

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 ...

A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people ...

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...

Many people think of December and January as the two months of the year you're likely to catch the common cold, but “cold season” actually stretches from late August through April. That means only ...

The common cold is caused by one of more than 200 viruses circulating at any given time. Children typically get between 6 and 10 colds yearly, while adults get between 2 and 4. Colds usually include a ...