Wheezing is a whistling sound caused by narrowed airways and is common in asthma. Asthma involves airway inflammation leading ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a friend who has had an extremely bad cough, especially when she gets a cold. (It sounds like she is coughing up a lung.) She is a breast cancer survivor and has had this cough ...

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, ...

Children can suffer from seven to 10 respiratory infections and spend up to 140 days with cold-related symptoms during the dreaded cold and flu season, Dr. Melanie Wilson-Taylor, a pediatrician at ...

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 ...