Live guest, Dr Ranj Singh , said the medicine is a waste of money and doctors no-longer recommend it. He warned that it could ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics IS seeing an increase in cases of flu and RSV this week. WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midstate are seeing flu, RSV and a stomach bug. “We ...

You can have an acute cough, one that comes on suddenly, like during a cold, or a chronic cough, which lasts more than eight weeks in adults and four weeks in children. Your first step toward ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends honey for cough in both adults and children, but never for people younger than 12 months old. Some studies suggest that honey may be more ...

Background: Children presenting with chronic cough are common to the primary care physicians, but data on the etiology are scant. Methods: We evaluated 40 children (age range, 5 to 12 years ...

Scientists at EMBL discovered that Dextromethorphan, found in common cough syrups ... study have been published in Science Translational Medicine journal. “To screen for a potential anti ...

Outbreaks among the unvaccinated are a predictable consequence of falling immunization rates. But even vaccinated adults may ...

Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a bacterium. Until the 1940s, when a pertussis vaccine was developed, about 9,000 U.S. children died of whooping cough every year.