Respiratory syncytial virus is a common, highly contagious illness that often causes mild upper respiratory symptoms, akin to a cold. In babies, particularly those with tiny airways, RSV can cause the ...

Americans are weathering the worst flu season in years, as a number of other respiratory illnesses circulate too, such as COVID-19, RSV and the common cold.

Chinese virologists have discovered a new bat coronavirus that can infect humans the way COVID-19 does, the South China Morning Post reports. According to the newspaper, the virus is a new lineage of ...

White piedra is a superficial fungal infection of the hair. Several species of fungus that live in soil or dirty water can cause it. Piedra is the Spanish word for stone. White piedra appears as ...

Feeling under the weather? In Texas, allergies can cause sneezing, congestion, and itchy eyes – but so can the flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses. Flu season is in full swing across much of the ...

Feeling under the weather? In Texas, cedar can bring sneezing, congestion and itchy eyes, but so can the flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal scientific publication on Thursday returned from a forced two-week hiatus with two papers examining the health effects of wildfires in Hawaii and California. The ...

Estonia's top tennis star Mark Lajal announced on Wednesday that he has undergone surgery to remove his tonsils in Tallinn. Lajal, 21, posted a message on social media announcing that he would now be ...

Using a novel, medication-based approach, a new Northwestern Medicine study successfully reversed existing inguinal hernias in male mice and fully restored their normal anatomy without surgery ...

The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.

Higher levels of leukocytes – a form of white blood cell – are associated ... that elevated inflammatory markers during or after COVID-19 infection are associated with subsequent (long COVID ...

a COVID-19 diagnosis is no longer as scary as it once was, at least for most people. A new study, however, suggests that it may now be easier to predict who is most likely to suffer with more serious ...