When you wake up with a fever, sore throat, or a head that feels like it’s full of concrete, your first question might be: Should I wait?

That persistent, dry, tickly cough? It might not be the start of a cold — it could be hay fever. A hay fever cough is usually the result of postnasal drip, where excess mucus travels down the ...

Mel O'Neill is a mum-of-two from Penketh and regularly blogs for us about living with breast cancer. Finally, fingers crossed ...

or unproductive cough. This refers to a tickly cough that does not produce any phlegm. However, in more severe cases, a person may develop a wet or productive cough. »MORE:Get an online treatment ...

Some OTC medications can also help. It’s late. You’d like to be sound asleep — but every time you begin to drift off, a cough jolts you awake again. A nighttime cough can be disruptive and ...

Whooping cough cases are surging in California with rates returning to pre-pandemic levels, medical experts said. As of April 26, a total of 590 Californians had contracted the highly contagious ...

Just four months into 2025, Washington had already recorded more cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, than it had in all but three full years since 1960. But as alarming as that ...

Kathryn Alcaide watched whooping cough destroy her son's tiny body and now urges everyone to get vaccinated to protect their families courtesy Kathryn Alcaide Kathryn Alcaide was thrilled when she ...

Reports of whooping cough were lower than usual over the last few years, but now cases are back to pre-pandemic levels. "[In] 2024, we had 18 confirmed cases within SLO, and we've just started ...