Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the reason whooping cough may not be in your everyday lexicon is because cases have dropped precipitously since a vaccine ...

A dry cough is a tickly irritation in your airways that doesn’t bring up any phlegm or mucus when you cough. There isn’t mucus blocking your lungs or airways, so nothing comes out when you cough. A ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Whooping cough, a highly infectious respiratory infection that laid low in recent years, has come roaring back. In Ohio, whooping cough cases have doubled in a year, spiking from ...

(WXYZ) — Whooping cough cases are on the rise. Henry Ford Health’s lab went from zero cases in July to 33 in September. Nationally, numbers have soared with ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Pertussis, also known ...

When you get stuffy and come down with a nasty cough, you might assume the culprit is the common cold. Feeling seriously unwell could point you in the direction of the flu, COVID-19, or RSV ...