The best cold medicine won't cure your virus, but it will help you manage your symptoms. These OTC options should stay ...

British medicine has made dogged and elaborate attempts to find out what makes “the common cold” so common. In the latest Scientific American, Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes, director of the ...

When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you temporarily feel better. Unfortunately a lot of remedies are placebos ...