Catching the “common cold” means you’ve been infected with an upper respiratory virus. Unlike the name implies, the common cold can be caused by more than 200 hundred different viruses, including ...

If you are plagued by a scratchy throat, stuffy nose, or cough this winter, you may have one of over 200 cold-causing viruses to thank for it. When it comes to determining how you caught that cold or ...

It’s OK to brush off this advice. One piece of “conventional wisdom” has echoed through households for generations, threatening those just trying to rush out the door — “Don’t go outside with wet hair ...

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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 ...

Catching a cold is almost a rite of passage for the chilly winter months when people and viruses are often in close quarters. And that’s especially true among children, who aren’t stingy about what ...

In episode 4 of “Rose Walk and Talk,” Akiko Iwasaki, the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and professor of dermatology and of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale School of ...

Blood sugar spikes don’t just happen after eating a carb-rich meal. There are plenty of other reasons your blood sugar might be high. Believe it or not, having a cold or infection might be one of them ...

A new study led by a UC San Francisco sleep researcher supports what parents have been saying for centuries: to avoid getting sick, be sure to get enough sleep. The team, which included researchers at ...