Cold and flu season can catch anyone off guard. No matter how busy or healthy we are, one sneeze can set off a flurry of ...

“Meanwhile, flu typically causes a sudden onset of fever, severe tiredness and weakness, muscle and joint aches, a headache, ...

It's allergy season, but 2025 is also a year for the common cold. Cold and flus are at an all-time high, making it difficult to discern what your symptoms are trying to tell you. If you're reaching ...

There’s no shortage of popular cold remedies, but there’s one in particular that a family physician warns against relying on too much.

As temperatures rise, flowers bloom and viruses continue to circulate, it can be challenging to tell whether it’s the last gasps of cold season or if allergy season springs anew. Both have similar ...

If anything good can be said about 2020, there were far fewer colds. By the time masks started coming off in 2021, the cold was back — just in time for summer, according to Health Matters, a monthly ...

No one likes a cold. The sneezing, coughing, stuffy nose and other symptoms are just no fun. As soon as you start to feel those pesky sym pto ms approach, you might start thinking to yourself “When is ...

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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.

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WASHINGTON -- Scientists have unraveled the genetic code of the common cold — all 99 known strains of it, to be exact. But don't expect the feat to lead to a cure for the sniffling any time soon. It ...