THERE are around 200,000 new diagnoses of heart failure every year in the UK. Heart failure is when the heart becomes less ...

To many people, mucus is nothing more than a gross goo, something to be tossed away in a tissue immediately after clearing your throat or blowing your nose. To scientists, it’s nothing short of a ...

David Lynch reveals emphysema diagnosis due to smoking, but remains optimistic, stating he's "filled with happiness" with no ...

Expecting mothers in their 32nd to 36th week of pregnancy can get an RSV vaccine, which will pass along antibodies to their newborn. Or, babies up to eight months old, can get a monoclonal antibody ...

You may not cough up anything if you have early-stage viral pneumonia. It's likely to be "more productive of mucus" if your viral pneumonia has progressed or you are dealing with bacterial ...

If you’ve found yourself with a bad cough, a blocked nose and a negative Covid test, you might have caught the cold that’s ...

For instance, “with lung infections, lying down helps the cilia [little ‘hairs’ in our lungs] to more effectively move mucus out ... if your cough is constant, very bad, and comes with ...

After a couple of weeks can develop into coughing fits because the bacteria causes the airways to become swollen and produce too much mucus ... what I thought was a really rotten cold.

After a rise in cases over the summer, whooping cough is continuing to spread across New Jersey just as flu and COVID season unofficially begins this month. The good news is that the start of flu ...

You'd hardly know it with the recent streak of summer weather, but we're weeks away from colder days when respiratory viruses ...