I deal with exhausted patients every day, and many misunderstand the cause of their own tiredness. Here are the cases you ...

The evolutionary trade-off that crossed humans' airway and food pathway, raising choking risk from toddlerhood to old age — ...

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It was the second night of a global consulting project at a top-tier telecommunications company in Hanoi when the team found itself stuck. Leonard A. Schlesinger is the Baker Foundation Professor at ...

Sometimes physicians encounter symptoms that remain unexplained despite extensive testing. When no clear medical explanation is found and symptoms persist, patients often develop anxiety and/or ...

Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways. It gets its common name from the “whoop” sound that some infected children make when ...

If you’ve had a mystery cough that just won’t go away, it’s easy to assume it’s something respiratory: maybe lingering from a cold, seasonal allergies, or even asthma. But sometimes, the source of the ...

The Kremlin quietly tried to delete footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin having a coughing fit and struggling to breathe mid-speech — as rumors of his health woes ramp up. Putin, 73, was caught ...

Anyone who has dealt with a lingering cough knows how quickly it can take over daily life. It interrupts conversations, disrupts sleep and makes even simple things like eating or drinking ...

Cases of whooping cough are on the rise in the US — and so are deaths, with most of 2025’s fatalities being children and infants. According to CDC data, there were 27,871 reported cases of pertussis, ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels. Often called the “100-day cough,” whooping cough or pertussis ...