A new study suggests that people may experience the same virus differently based on how quickly the cells in their noses ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 together to fight the virus by triggering an arsenal of antiviral defenses. In a ...

Cold and flu season always comes around when the weather starts to change. But does cold, wet weather actually make you sick? Not really, experts say. But cooler temperatures and dry winter air can ...

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