You’ve been feeling a tickle in your throat this week, so you took a bunch of vitamins, drank a few extra glasses of water and hoped for the best. This morning, you have a new symptom: a cough. But ...

Infections happen year-round, but peak whooping cough season lasts from late summer through fall. Pertussis is a cyclical disease, meaning it might spread widely through a community and then disappear ...

For centuries, doctors and caregivers have listened to the different types of cough in search of clues to help diagnose underlying disease. Coughs are a valuable diagnostic tool, but how do you know ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) – This time of year is ripe with germs and illnesses. It can be hard to tell what will pass and what you should go to the doctor for. Is that just a cough in your child or is it ...

Allergies? A cold? Acid reflux? No matter what the cause, there’s a simple reason behind all your hacking: “A cough is a protective mechanism to clear your airway,” explained Dr. Jonathan Parsons, ...

Scientists say they can distinguish the sound of a COVID-19 cough. Researchers with the Embedded Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne are developing a diagnostic ...

Researchers are working on an app that could potentially detect COVID-19 in a user based on the sound of their cough. Called Coughvid, the app from EPFL’s (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ...

Allergies? A cold? Acid reflux? No matter what the cause, there’s a simple reason behind all your hacking: “A cough is a protective mechanism to clear your airway,” explains Jonathan Parsons, MD, ...