Local doctors say respiratory virus season is in full swing, particularly for the flu. Several factors, including cold weather, are potentially contributing to the spread. Here are tips from doctors t ...

In addition to medication, you can use topical treatments — in gel, patch or cream form, as a healing solution for cold sores ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) have discovered that adenovirus, a common virus that causes colds and ...

Scientists have warned there is a 'severe risk' of catching a cold this week as nine million people across Britain suffer from the virus. They issued the health alert as the recent icy weather ...

The only way you can actually get a cold is is by coming into contact with the cold virus, usually by breathing in droplets of fluid containing the virus (when someone coughs or sneezes), or by ...

Respiratory syncytial virus is a common, highly contagious illness that often causes mild upper respiratory symptoms, akin to a cold. In babies, particularly those with tiny airways, RSV can cause the ...

Aches and pains. Pain (think: body aches and a sore throat) is also a tip off that you’re dealing with a virus like a cold.

Last year, a 13-year-old in British Columbia contracted Canada’s first known human case of avian flu after testing positive ...