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E-cigarettes can help people quit smoking but misconceptions about device abound

While e-cigarettes are relatively new, uncertainty about their longer-term effects do persist. But studies show that smoking disproportionately harms people

Post COVID-19 care: Easy ways to manage dry or wet cough for recovering patients

Both a dry and wet cough are symptoms of COVID-19. If you are recovering from the infection, taking proper care to cure the cough is important.

New COVID-19 symptom? Mouth rashes could be latest to make list, suggests JAMA study

A study published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Dermatology indicates that along with skin rashes, coronavirus patients also get enanthems (mouth rashes)

Some scientists think that Vitamin D may help protect people against COVID-19 but the results are inconclusive

Most evidence comes from observational studies and people are urged to be cautious about taking high doses of supplements to obtain benefits that may not exist.

Coronavirus Outbreaks: Warmer weathers could slow the spread of COVID-19 but we cannot rely on the weather to stop the spread

Cold weather is presumed to cause the spread of coughs, colds and flu is because it causes irritation in the nasal passages and airways, making us more susceptible to viral infection.

COVID-19 pandemic: Humans can't hear difference between coughs of healthy and infected people

The study's authors hope to give people food for thought before they jump to conclusions based on someone's cough.

Ridiculous: Beijing dismisses Harvard study that suggests COVID-19 was already spreading in China, in August

The research uses satellite images of hospital parking lots in Wuhan and data for symptom-related queries on search engines for things like “cough” and “diarrhoea”.

Loss of taste and smell is added to the United Kingdom's list of Coronavirus related symptoms

However, this could be signs of other respiratory infections hence experts say fever and persistent cough should be important symptoms to look out for.

World Asthma Day 2020: Eight simple tips to deal with exercise-induced asthma

Exercise-induced asthma (medically called exercise-induced bronchoconstriction), kicks in after 5 to 10 minutes of a proper workout.

CDC adds new symptoms that can alert suspected Coronavirus patients of the possibility of being infected

It has turned out that many people with COVID-19 do not have fevers or it waxes and wanes, and sometimes accompanied by chills.