If you get sick with a cold during the summer, it might catch you by surprise. It turns out those rays of sunshine can’t protect you from the pesky viruses that cause the common cold. And while it’s ...

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Alternative medicine experts say which herbs and tricks they use on sick days. Oct. 30, 2008 — -- A cold is the most common illness on the planet, and having a medical degree hardly makes you ...

Flu, COVID-19, the common cold and RSV have similarities, but they differ in their severity, contagiousness and symptoms. Vaccines are available for COVID-19, the flu and RSV. However, there is no ...

There are plenty of over-the-counter remedies for the common cold, but some carry significant risks, and their efficacy is dubious. The latter applies to phenylephrine, an active ingredient in common ...

Finally scientists may have found a potential cure for common cold. They have found “silver bullets” in yogurt that could destroy viruses and provide a cure for the flu and common cold. The discovery ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Adults on average get one or two colds per year, with children getting up to six, and they usually last four to five days. The symptoms are runny nose, dry cough, and sore throat ...

As winter’s chill settles in, millions of Americans will reach for over-the-counter medications to combat the seasonal surge of stuffy noses and congestion. But a startling revelation about one of the ...

The common cold is caused by a viral infection in the nose. The difficulty in coming up with an effective treatment is finding something that can attack all the different viruses that cause a cold.