A head cold, or common cold, is a viral infection of the nose and throat. It is usually a mild illness, and involves symptoms in the head, such as a stuffed, runny nose and watery eyes. According ...

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Rare diseases affect millions. Here, 15 surprising conditions you should know about—including disorders that turn your skin blue or give you a foreign accent.

After years of little progress in lowering the national rate of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), which includes sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), researchers at Rutgers Health have introduced ...

There tend to be more bugs around in winter making everyone snotty and uncomfortable. But does this mean that cold weather causes colds? Well no, viruses cause the common cold. But, as Norman and ...

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The condition is twice as common in women as in men and much more common as people get older, Winkelman said. However, as Dzienkowski learned, children can have restless legs syndrome, too.

While symptoms can almost always be managed, “there are no treatments that shorten the duration of a cold,” says Hill. Instead, "every cold just needs to run its course," says Mitzner.