This flue season, many of us have braced for the inevitable cold, often accompanied by a blocked or runny nose. It's annoying and inconvenient, and the natural instinct is to blow your nose to find ...

Bet you didn’t know there’s a right way and a wrong way to blow your nose. Do the latter and you could make your cold symptoms even worse. You could even cause some damage. A couple of decades ago, ...

Scientists studied hundreds of kids and staff members to learn how respiratory viruses circulate in schools. Here’s what they found, as peak virus season approaches.

We all know the symptoms of a cold…cough, runny nose, congestion. But what’s happening when some kids and even adults seem to have a never ending cold, the constant drip that no amount of blowing ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The school year is well underway, and as students bring home books and assignments, they could also be bringing home germs - especially the little ones. Dr. Lisa Denike, a ...

Summer heat, outdoor fun ... and cold and flu symptoms? The three may not go together in many people's minds: partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have ...

Newborns cannot blow their noses, and they are not great at breathing through their mouths either—so even a little mucus can sound dramatic. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, shares what is normal when ...