The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that triggers weeks of misery or even dangerous complications. The same ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Mama, I just threw up,” my 8-year-old son recently told me. He had just gotten over a stomach virus a few months prior, so I was ...

Certain viruses could make people more susceptible to heart disease, new research suggests. An independent study showed that people who contracted COVID or influenza faced a "dramatically" greater ...

The odds are fairly high that everyone around you is currently sick. But you’re not imagining things if it seems like your typical sore throat is worse than usual. A “mystery throat virus” is going ...

About 5 million people worldwide live with the autoimmune condition lupus. This condition can cause a range of symptoms, including tiredness, fever, joint pain and a characteristic butterfly-shaped ...

A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil reveals that tissues such as the tonsils and adenoids can ...