It can be hard to decipher when you or your children are suffering from allergies or something more serious. When should you go to the doctor? When should you take medicine, and what should you take?

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

Whooping cough, a serious and sometimes fatal disease, is on the rise across the U.S., often affecting young children and babies and sometimes resembling a cold in its early symptoms. The Centers for ...

If anything good can be said about 2020, there were far fewer colds. By the time masks started coming off in 2021, the cold was back — just in time for summer, according to Health Matters, a monthly ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cases of whooping cough have spiked, but are still around the same amount of illnesses from before the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC said that ...

No matter why it's happening, a cough is always annoying-it's loud, it's uncomfortable, and it never fails to garner unwanted attention. "The purpose of a cough is to help us," says Monica Lee, MD, an ...

Children can suffer from seven to 10 respiratory infections and spend up to 140 days with cold-related symptoms during the dreaded cold and flu season, Dr. Melanie Wilson-Taylor, a pediatrician at ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A local high school has confirmed its first case of whooping cough for this school year. Fairmont High ...

Medically reviewed by Monika Goyal, M.D.Medically reviewed by Monika Goyal, M.D. If your toddler is coughing at night, it's understandable to be concerned. One of the most common reasons toddlers ...

North Carolina health officials say they’re seeing another uptick in whooping cough cases. The state reports four times more cases than were reported in 2023-2024. “Whooping cough, also known as ...