Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's cold and flu season again. (Getty Images) (HUIZENG HU via Getty Images) This time of year, there are a number of viruses ...

recognizing the key differences in how they start, the severity of fever, and specific signs is crucial for accurate ...

My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. It stayed in her nose and throat. That’s a common cold, right? Why is having a cold so different from when you get the flu?

Most colds go away within 7–10 days, but some symptoms, like coughing and congestion, can linger for weeks. How long a cold will last depends largely on your age, general health, and the type of cold ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

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

Yesterday you felt fine, but today your nose is runny and your throat feels scratchy. These could be the first symptoms of a cold, which typically appear in adults about one to three days after ...

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

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

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

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