Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most cases are benign and resolve spontaneously. The most common causes are post-infectious, asthma or ...

Cough serves a protective physiologic function as a vital defensive reflex preventing aspiration. However, exposure to viral infections or other triggers induces, in some individuals, a chronic cough ...

The differential diagnosis of cough in children is extensive. It has been reported that up to 31% of coughs have no apparent underlying cause. Primary among the causes of cough are infectious ...

So your cold's long gone, but have you now been left with a lingering cough that is keeping everyone awake and annoying colleagues? New US research shows the average time for a cough to last after a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Ten to 15 years ago, I had to constantly clear my throat and it was driving me and everybody around me nuts. You had written a column about chronic throat-clearing. In the article, you ...

A dry cough causes a scratchy throat but doesn't produce mucus. Upper respiratory infections, allergies, and asthma often trigger it. A dry cough can develop for many reasons. Some of the most common ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chronic cough is any cough that lasts for at least 4 weeks in children and 8 weeks in adults. If you can't stop coughing it could ...

Are you an adult suffering from a long-standing cough that does not produce phlegm and stops as soon as you fall asleep? Has your cough failed to improve despite being treated with different ...

A nighttime cough is the most common type of asthma cough, 15 and is included as part of the assessment for asthma control in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute guidelines for the diagnosis ...

About 4% to 10% of the adult population experiences chronic cough — a cough lasting eight weeks or more, or at least four weeks for children. A chronic cough doesn't call for immediate medical ...