Kate and Greg Moor weren’t thinking “whooping cough” when their son, 13-year-old Joe, started having coughing fits in early March. Joe probably just had a late winter virus, the Bloomfield Hills, ...

Dalila Jakupovic was in the lead before had to retire from the match. A professional tennis player competing in an Australian Open qualifying match in Melbourne was forced to retire after she suffered ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases, I wanted to ...

Although the holiday season has ended, several weeks of winter remain, so many state and local medical experts continue to recommend residents take precautions against the sick season. Influenza, ...

Ever noticed that a blocked nose means you're constantly breathing more heavily through one nostril than the other? To open one side of your nose and shut the other, your body swells tissue with blood ...

Illinois health officials released a warning Monday as whooping cough cases in the state rose to their highest levels in two decades. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, October ...

ROME -- Pope Francis suffered an isolated coughing fit on Friday that resulted in him inhaling vomit and requiring noninvasive mechanical ventilation, the Vatican said in relaying an alarming setback ...

As measles cases continue to crop up across the U.S., so too are cases of another highly contagious disease. Whooping cough, known clinically as pertussis, has caused the death of at least five, ...

When you get stuffy and come down with a nasty cough, you might assume the culprit is the common cold. Feeling seriously unwell could point you in the direction of the flu, COVID-19, or RSV ...

A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, published by Oxford University Press, finds that people who switch from smoking cigarettes to vaping see improved respiratory health, but people who begin ...

A flight passenger said a woman was spraying cleaning disinfectant all over her seating area of the plane — prompting other flyers to break out in fits of coughing. In the forum “r/delta” on Reddit, ...