A common cold affects people differently. While some suffer from mild symptoms, for others, it can be life-threatening. A new ...

A new study suggests that people may experience the same virus differently based on how quickly the cells in their noses ...

The common cold looks trivial compared with illnesses that fill intensive care units, yet it still knocks out workers, empties classrooms and costs health systems huge sums every winter. Despite ...

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

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

A common cold infection (rhinovirus) in kids can protect them from a COVID-19 infection by stimulating body’s immune response, specifically through interferons. This episode may help to elucidate why ...

The common cold virus may be able to prevent the flu virus from infecting airways, a new study suggests. Researchers say the rhinovirus could jump-start the body’s antiviral defences, providing ...

When the common cold rips through a household, it can leave a wildly uneven path of symptoms. The same cold-causing rhinovirus that produces barely a sniffle in one person can cause a week of ...

This time of year, there are a number of viruses doing the rounds, and it can be hard to dodge the dreaded flu or common cold. If you are unlucky enough to get struck down with illness, you will ...

As a result of an experiment in which cultured human cells were simultaneously infected with the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and rhinovirus, which is said to be a typical causative virus of colds, ...

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold air, sleeping in a chilly room, getting caught in cold rain or snow, or ...