It's often pretty easy to tell when a person is sick — a loud cough and runny nose are good indicators — but sometimes the symptoms aren't always so obvious. Now, a new study reveals that humans are ...

Plenty of people – about 1 in 3, according to some studies — feel bad for a day or two after they get a flu shot. The most common symptoms include headaches, muscle aches, fatigue and fever, all of ...

Social distancing when sick has become second nature to many of us in the past few years, but some sick animals appear to take a different approach. A new study of house finches uncovered a surprising ...

For canaries, just seeing their feathered friends get sick may be enough to preemptively rev up their immune systems. Healthy birds housed within view of fellow fowl infected with a common pathogen ...

It’s a familiar story: the fever rises, your throat hurts, and suddenly even your favourite food looks unappetizing. You know your body needs fuel to fight the infection, yet you can barely think ...

This is the fifth installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. First-year flu, “Metcough,” “Keeney Cough” — it’s called a number of names, but they all ...

It’s that time of year again: coughing, wheezy, sticky people all around you, and that dread in the pit of your stomach that you’re about to get sick. What do you do? Conventional wisdom says that to ...