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

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

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.

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

Researchers grew nasal tissue in a lab to unlock clues about how your body battles the common cold.

New research suggests this divide begins almost the moment you’re exposed. A study from Yale University finds that the earliest responses from the cells lining your nose (triggered within hours of ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...