A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Dear Doctors: My wife started getting sick a few days before Halloween. We were worried that it was going to turn into a bad respiratory illness, but it stayed in her nose and throat. That's a common ...

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

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

Researchers grew nasal tissue in a lab to unlock clues about how your body battles the common cold.

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

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

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 ...