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

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...

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

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

Your mom used to warn you about going outside and "catching your death," but is it true that cold weather can make you sick?

Cold and flu season always comes around when the weather starts to change. But does cold, wet weather actually make you sick? Not really, experts say. But cooler temperatures and dry winter air can ...

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

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 ...

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