Antibiotics Don’t Work for Cold Symptoms

According to a recent study published in the British medical journal Lancet, about a third of patients who go to their doctor for upper respiratory tract infections (URIs) are diagnosed with acute rhinosinusitis, and 80 percent of those patients receive antibiotics,...

Which is greater?

A. the number of stars in the Milky Way B. the number of nerve cells in the human brain There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.

13 Crazy Facts About the Common Cold

In the big picture of getting sick, the common cold doesn’t seem like such a huge deal. It doesn’t have the same total-knock-out punch as the flu, it isn’t terribly enduring, it usually isn’t terminal. But when in the throes of a cold that has one in its grips, it...