In one viral video posted in mid-December, a TikTok user described a hacking cough that’s hung on for weeks. Another person on TikTok said in a video posted the same week that they had been coughing ...

Following a nationwide trend, incidences of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, have been increasing to pre-pandemic levels. But in 2024 in Florida, the number of cases was still almost ...

Variations of the claim that coughing during a heart attack can increase survival chances likely go back to a message circulating in June 1999 (seen in Snopes' prior reporting) and attributed to ...

But that’s not always how serious illness plays out. Children who need to be on ventilators, have tracheostomies or ...

It spreads easily person-to-person as people cough ... I took care of several babies who ended up in the ICU. One of my attendings got whooping cough at that time and ended up in the ICU because ...