The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that triggers weeks of misery or even dangerous complications. The same ...

A drug combination therapy that pairs a live common cold virus with an immunotherapy drug shrank melanoma tumors in nearly half of patients involved in a small study led by New York City-based NYU ...

Astroviruses may not be well known, but they are very common and are the leading cause of diarrhea in children. As many as 90% of children are thought to have had an astrovirus infection by the time ...

A long-term dementia care ward saw an outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus that infected 73 percent of patients, showing the challenges inherent in preventing the spread ...

RSV can be fatal—but according to a new study, it may prevent breast cancer cells from spreading to your lungs.

A major scientific breakthrough has identified the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) as the leading cause of multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic inflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people ...

A study published 30 years ago is striking up new conversation about the potential connection between the common cold sore and Alzheimer’s disease. Published in The Lancet in 1997, researchers ...

The odds are fairly high that everyone around you is currently sick. But you’re not imagining things if it seems like your typical sore throat is worse than usual. A “mystery throat virus” is going ...

New research has suggested that a virus that has typically been thought of as common and harmless may actually be associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease. This study, which has been ...

TikTok, X, and Instagram are flooded with videos about a mysterious “2025 throat virus” that’s making everyone sick. The illness causes a host of debilitating symptoms including runny nose, congestion ...