During the winter season, complaints of coughs and colds become among the most common health issues. Most people tend to ignore coughs by labelling them as seasonal and hoping they will clear up soon.

THE HSE has issued a health alert over a common winter illness that can become “severe and life-threatening” – with six signs to watch for. Chest infections are very common and account for around one ...

Unless pneumonia is suspected, clinicians should not prescribe antibiotics for most children with chest infections, according to findings of the ARTIC-PC randomized controlled trial, published in The ...

A woman with a chest infection, which can otherwise be treated with medicines, had to be admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital as her condition deteriorated since none of the standard ...