"Oh, that's just from smoking." It's easy to dismiss a chronic cough as another problem with cigarettes. But what if it's a sign of the lung disease COPD? Franziska Gabbert/dpa Long-term smokers often ...

Q: I have developed an episodic but chronic cough. My wife thought it could be due to my acid reflux. Is that a real thing? A: We cough to protect our airway or because something irritates the airway.

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A two-part Series in this week's Lancet explores the extremely common chronic cough. Both papers are authored by Professor Kian Fan Chung, Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, ...

Have a cough that won’t seem to go away? Has it lasted longer than eight weeks? You should go to your doctor. Any cough lasting more than eight weeks is considered chronic and is not likely to go away ...

A study of the Austrian general population found that most chronic cough cases could be assigned a phenotype through a simple survey-based assessment that could help target treatment to individual ...

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 ...

Some people continue coughing after they recover from a common respiratory infection. Doctors explain why a cough can last ...

For adults with a history of depression, chronic cough can increase the risk of recurrent depressive events, a study found. Adults with chronic cough experience a disproportionate burden of depressive ...

People who experienced severe long COVID had two stand-out symptoms: Persistent cough and a lot of sputum within the year after being hospitalized for their initial infection, according to a new study ...