New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

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

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

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

Seasonal changes not only welcome a new season, new weather, and new food habits, but it also bring in seasonal diseases, especially respiratory viruses. Though it is a yearly occurrence. Every time ...

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

Valacyclovir is a generic prescription oral tablet used to treat herpes simplex infections. Its mechanism of action is to make it harder for the herpes virus to multiply. The herpes virus spreads in ...