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There’s increasing debate about your snoozing habit, and whether or not it’s silently sabotaging your morning.

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In her new book, Amy Larocca examines how wellbeing became less a matter of universal care and more a luxury reserved for the ...

Learn 12 science-backed ways to try to shorten the aches, chills, sneezing, and coughing of the common cold. The key is to ...

"Good product and results." Before adding Mucinex to your cart, ask yourself if this is the best cold medicine for the job, reminds Kerley. For mucus-producing coughs, guaifenesin's mucus-thinning ...

claim to heal cold sores quickly, sometimes in as few as 2.5 days. But the doctors we spoke with didn’t recommend them. Topical medications are less effective than oral antiviral medications ...

The point of cold medicines is to help you be a little less ... are hoping you buy something the same color and figure it's good enough. But the brand name tells you next to nothing about what's ...

Whether they called their complaint a cold or catarrh, die Grippe— or flu, the answer was the same: for none of these illnesses caused by viruses does medicine ... yet had a good word to say ...

“Knowingly using a placebo to treat cold symptoms in young children may constitute good medicine,” the authors of an accompanying editorial wrote. Many parents already dole out placebos ...

Doctors say Americans will be better off without phenylephrine, which is often combined with other medicines to treat cold, flu ... "This is a good drug, but not when it's swallowed," said ...