The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that ...

Scientists have identified 22 genes that explain why one common virus leaves many people unharmed but puts others at risk of ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside humans for many millennia ...

Who knows why different people have different symptoms with the common cold? Well, a new study used laboratory-grown noses ...

Certain viruses could make people more susceptible to heart disease, new research suggests. An independent study showed that people who contracted COVID or influenza faced a "dramatically" greater ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Mama, I just threw up,” my 8-year-old son recently told me. He had just gotten over a stomach virus a few months prior, so I was ...

A common virus that infects most people can trigger the chronic immune system condition lupus, according to a new study. Nearly 5 million people worldwide suffer from the autoimmune disease in which a ...

The odds are fairly high that everyone around you is currently sick. But you’re not imagining things if it seems like your typical sore throat is worse than usual. A “mystery throat virus” is going ...

Respiratory viruses are usually most active from October through March, health officials say.

A mum was told her toddler was “absolutely fine” just days before she passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest triggered ...

Last year, at least one million people in the U.S. were hospitalized for respiratory virus illnesses like the flu or COVID-19 ...