The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cases of whooping cough have spiked, but are still around the same amount of illnesses from before the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC said that ...

If anything good can be said about 2020, there were far fewer colds. By the time masks started coming off in 2021, the cold was back — just in time for summer, according to Health Matters, a monthly ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.

No matter why it's happening, a cough is always annoying-it's loud, it's uncomfortable, and it never fails to garner unwanted attention. "The purpose of a cough is to help us," says Monica Lee, MD, an ...

It can be hard to decipher when you or your children are suffering from allergies or something more serious. When should you go to the doctor? When should you take medicine, and what should you take?

North Carolina health officials say they’re seeing another uptick in whooping cough cases. The state reports four times more cases than were reported in 2023-2024. “Whooping cough, also known as ...

Children can suffer from seven to 10 respiratory infections and spend up to 140 days with cold-related symptoms during the dreaded cold and flu season, Dr. Melanie Wilson-Taylor, a pediatrician at ...

Researchers are working on an app that could potentially detect COVID-19 in a user based on the sound of their cough. Called Coughvid, the app from EPFL’s (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ...

A child sick with RSV is pictured. The Suffolk County Department of Health in New York is sounding the alarm on a whooping cough outbreak happening throughout school districts in the region, it ...