The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cases of whooping cough have spiked, but are still around the same amount of illnesses from before the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC said that ...

No matter why it's happening, a cough is always annoying-it's loud, it's uncomfortable, and it never fails to garner unwanted attention. "The purpose of a cough is to help us," says Monica Lee, MD, an ...

Pneumonia: "Symptom severity ranges from mild to life-threatening and can include confusion, fever, a cough that produces ...

If anything good can be said about 2020, there were far fewer colds. By the time masks started coming off in 2021, the cold was back — just in time for summer, according to Health Matters, a monthly ...

Whooping cough, a serious and sometimes fatal disease, is on the rise across the U.S., often affecting young children and babies and sometimes resembling a cold in its early symptoms. The Centers for ...

Children can suffer from seven to 10 respiratory infections and spend up to 140 days with cold-related symptoms during the dreaded cold and flu season, Dr. Melanie Wilson-Taylor, a pediatrician at ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...