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

Using a laboratory model of the human nose, scientists have investigated why the severity of common-cold infections varies so ...

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

The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that ...

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 ...

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

Every winter, the rhinoviruses come into force; and with them, the common cold. For some people, these infections go almost ...

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

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

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

Detection of common cold coronaviruses (ccCoVs) decreased by approximately half after the widespread SARS-CoV-2 exposure and COVID-19 vaccination, whereas detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV ...

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 ...