virus

Is it possible to catch obesity like you'd catch a cold, the flu, or pink eye? Yes, say researchers who believe obesity is due, in part, to a viral ... Read More »

Most of us have had it: those itchy, scabby little red dots known as the chicken pox. Me, I had them when I was six, and all I remember is my Nana ... Read More »

Winter is known as cold season - and it's not just because the temperatures are dropping. Your chances of catching a cold this season are high -- but ... Read More »

The flu has been around since the beginning of time, and in all those years and centuries more than a few misconceptions and myths have come to be ... Read More »

U.S. health officials reported this past week that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- which causes bronchiolitis and pneumonia in newborns and ... Read More »

Only if you eat about ten thousand of them! Yucky, yuck, yuck! I can't tell you how many people have asked me this strange question throughout my 18 ... Read More »

Nothing's more stressful during the holiday season than getting sick amid all the hoopla. So, as you're cruising the aisles of the grocery store ... Read More »

Although the virus is generally associated with sickness and even tragic, terminal health conditions, one virus may actually be incredibly helpful if ... Read More »

Do you get cold sores? I do, so I know how much of a pain in the you-know-what they can be. And if it's not bad to enough to be cold sore-prone, ... Read More »

We're coming into flu season the same way we do every year -- the colder it gets the more of us seem to get sick. So why is that? Why is it that the ... Read More »