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 ...

Chest pain when coughing can sometimes be a sign of a medical emergency like a heart attack. Acute bronchitis causes symptoms like coughing with mucus and chest soreness. GERD involves stomach acid ...

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 persistent cough can be embarrassing, especially if people think you have COVID. Coughing frequently can also make you physically tired, interfere with sleep and trigger urinary incontinence. As a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a friend who has had an extremely bad cough, especially when she gets a cold. (It sounds like she is coughing up a lung.) She is a breast cancer survivor and has had this cough ...

A lingering cough is often brushed aside as a passing infection, allergy or smoker’s irritation. However, doctors warn that ...

It can be tricky to determine whether your symptoms are actually the result of a common cold, bronchitis, or another type of infection. How do you know whether your cough and runny nose are signs of a ...

Aspiration is a common cause of coughing after eating, when you inhale something into your windpipe. Treatment for coughing after eating typically includes dietary changes and medications. Eating ...

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 ...