Back pain that worsens with coughing is usually due to muscle strains or spasms and can take several weeks to improve. Cough medications and home remedies like honey and bracing your core can help ...

Whooping cough, scientifically known as Bordetella pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. It is characterized by severe coughing spasms, where individuals may cough so intensely that ...

NOCTURNAL coughing spasms are most distressing not only for the child but also for the parents, and drugstores are replete with antitussive agents — many of them the so-called "narcotic-exempt" ...

Has your child got a bad cough that almost sounds like a seal? Hearing a child with croup is concerning to any parent. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, breaks down what is happening to cause the nasty ...

Reported cases of the highly contagious respiratory illness pertussis — also called whooping cough — in Michigan during 2009 were more than double the average number of cases from 2003-2007, according ...