There's still no cure for the common cold. Cold medicines seek to relieve symptoms rather than cure the illness or make it go away faster. Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and self-care may help ...

The FDA reveals that phenylephrine, a popular decongestant, is no better than a placebo. Discover what this means for your ...

Q. I saw the news recently that the Food and Drug Administration is proposing to remove a popular ingredient in over-the-counter decongestants because it isn’t effective. Is there a cold remedy ...

There's also one big difference between the flu and COVID or a cold that can indicate which illness you have. Don't ignore it ...

Although cold and flu medications often contain antihistamines, research shows that antihistamines aren’t very effective for treating symptoms of the common cold. Most experts say that histamine ...

Early signs of whooping cough in adults look very much like a common cold, Dr. Loafman says. For the first week or so of ...

Perhaps the worst part of a cold is a stuffy nose; not being able to breathe as you normally would is zero percent fun.

Nasal irrigation can be a useful addition to the management of chronic upper respiratory conditions, including nasal ...

But sometimes, it's just too dangerous like when it gets as cold as it has been this weekend. Dr. Stephen Wolf is the chair of emergency medicine at Denver Health. He says he sees how dangerous ...