Unlike short-term bugs, asthma is a chronic, inflammatory condition. In children who have it, their airways swell and narrow ...

It started with what seemed like a run-of-the-mill cold. My three-year-old had a cough that wouldn’t go away, a fever that barely counted as one, and he stopped sleeping through the night. As a ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis. The infection attacks the lining of the breathing passages. People can get ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – More than 14,000 packs of ‘cough, ...

Parents and providers face a dilemma in wanting to help children with cough but also recognizing that over-the-counter medications have limited clinically proven benefit and real safety concerns when ...

Many children seem to have never-ending coughs and colds during the winter. But it can leave parents wondering whether it will right itself or if they need to see a doctor. Now Dr Dominic Greenyer has ...

Cough is the most common chief complaint in the United States and Australia. 1 Although the differential diagnosis of cough in children is extensive, coughs can have very characteristic presentations ...

Two children’s cough syrups are being recalled because of a defect that could cause overdosing. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare is voluntarily recalling two lots of Children's Robitussin® Honey ...

The deaths occurred in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh after the children allegedly consumed cough syrup contaminated with toxic diethylene glycol Becca Longmire is a digital news ...

Habit cough virtually always has an organic origin. The child will have had a cough from an asthma exacerbation, pneumonia, or a common cold. He or she becomes stuck in a cycle of cough, irritation, ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The first whooping cough death in Washington since 2011 has been confirmed in Spokane County last week. According to Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD), a child under the ...

Medtech Products Inc. is recalling five lots of Little Remedies Honey Cough Syrup due to the presence of Bacillus cereus, as well as the “loss of shelf-stability,” the company explained. The recalled ...