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 ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. They're the hallmarks of cold and flu season: a sore throat, a blocked nose and, sometimes, a ...

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

India has confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Here are answers on what the infection is and what happened in previous outbreaks in Asian countries.