While a stuffy nose, scratchy throat and body aches can stop you in your tracks, the best cold medicine can help you bounce back faster and feel more like yourself. But facing packed drugstore shelves ...

First of all, let’s look at the recommended age limits for over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. Under 4 years old, the AAP and FDA agree these medicines should not be used at all.

When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you temporarily feel better. Unfortunately a lot of remedies are placebos ...

Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Erica Sweeney Q: I get cold sores several times a ... at the University of Washington School of Medicine. They’re also common, she added: Roughly ...

It isn’t uncommon for your asthma symptoms to shift with the seasons. Find out more about how to handle cold-induced asthma.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am on a low-sodium diet by choice. I do not add salt to anything, except when I bake for others. I have found that if I cut salt down or eliminate it, I can also reduce my sugar ...

Frost, strong winds and fog expected as cold front sweeps across Saudi Arabia Climatologists have identified this wave as "Bard Al Ajooz" (the Old Woman’s Cold), a well-known late-season cold ...

One of the older fads is in the news again: getting high from cough and cold medicines containing dextromethorphan (DXM). This drug is sometimes combined with prescribed promethazine with codeine.

“Early Mars has historically been thought of as either ‘cold and dry’ or ‘warm and wet,’” says Alberto Fairén, an astrobiologist at the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid and at ...

Your favorite cold and flu medicine may soon go missing from shelves. In a move following others to regulate materials without previous approval by the Food and Drug Administration, about 500 ...

It’s 1962. Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and Moscow. Forced to enlist by the United States military, a young physician reluctantly cuts short his medical residency at New York’s ...