Blood sugar spikes don’t just happen after eating a carb-rich meal. There are plenty of other reasons your blood sugar might be high. Believe it or not, having a cold or infection might be one of them ...

Winter is upon us, and so is the concern of the elderly about catching a cold. Despite protests, many youngsters are forced into warm clothes and warned to stay away from the refrigerator at home.

It’s OK to brush off this advice. One piece of “conventional wisdom” has echoed through households for generations, threatening those just trying to rush out the door — “Don’t go outside with wet hair ...

If you are plagued by a scratchy throat, stuffy nose, or cough this winter, you may have one of over 200 cold-causing viruses to thank for it. When it comes to determining how you caught that cold or ...

Catching a cold is almost a rite of passage for the chilly winter months when people and viruses are often in close quarters. And that’s especially true among children, who aren’t stingy about what ...

In episode 4 of “Rose Walk and Talk,” Akiko Iwasaki, the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and professor of dermatology and of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale School of ...