Could exposure to the coronaviruses that cause the common cold help protect against COVID-19? Is herd immunity closer than previously thought?

Merdu Ruang provides playlists that have therapeutic purposes. 

Papille purrs contentedly as her owner rubs the back of her head, her coat glossy and her eyes a piercing green - back to her old affection-seeking self after recovering from COVID-19.

One theory even suggests that exercising at around 60 percent of your maximum heart rate will bring our bodies into a so-called “fat burning zone”, optimal for losing weight.

One in 10 diabetics with coronavirus dies within seven days of hospital admission, according to a study of more than 1,300 patients published Friday in the journal Diabetologia.

In recent years, scientists have grown increasingly fluent in the language of genome, but much remains mysterious, including the function of many of our genes.

A South African HIV researcher who found that a topical gel could stop many women catching the virus has been awarded one of France's top science prizes.

New UK research has found that washing hands six to ten times a day could lower the risk of seasonal coronavirus infections such as the common cold, a finding which supports the current guidelines recommending handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent transmission of the infection. 

There is a fundamental problem: while evidence on the efficacy of HCQ/CQ stands on shaky grounds, evidence on the safety profile shows chilling mortality risks among COVID-19 patients taking the drugs.

Haiti's voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation chambers of their temples to receive patients.

A 107-year-old Iranian woman who was infected with the new coronavirus has recovered, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

First indications of the effectiveness of a potential vaccine against coronavirus may be available in the autumn, the head of the GAVI vaccine alliance told a Swiss newspaper, forecasting a long road from there to broad availability.

Some people worry that cash may be spreading the coronavirus.

Patients with severe COVID-19 given plasma from someone who recovered from the disease were more likely to stabilize or need less oxygen support than other similar hospital patients.

It is important to understand the timings of smell loss in relation to other symptoms.

We still have relatively little direct evidence about the role of vitamin D in COVID-19. And while early research is interesting, much of it may be circumstantial.

Nearly one in six Spanish children have felt regularly depressed during the coronavirus crisis, with those from poorer backgrounds suffering worse, a charity said on Thursday.

Avigan, a candidate drug for treating novel coronavirus infections, has not shown apparent efficacy in treating the respiratory disease in clinical trials so far, raising doubts about its approval by the end of this month as sought by the Japanese government, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

Another puzzle in the COVID-19 stroke story is that we are seeing far fewer patients with stroke than usual coming to hospital.

Did you know that confusion affects 20 percent or more of patients in hospital with COVID-19? Or that previous coronavirus outbreaks have been linked to high rates of mental illness in the aftermath?

New Australian research has found that if you're using Google to self-diagnose your illness, you're more than likely getting the wrong advice, as online symptom checkers are only accurate around a third of the time.

Patients recovering from severe lung infections develop "immunological scars" that stifle their body's immune response and heighten their risk of contracting pneumonia, a common killer of COVID-19 sufferers, researchers said Monday.

An antibody from a patient who recovered from SARS has been shown to block COVID-19 infection in a laboratory setting, researchers said Monday in another potential breakthrough in the search for coronavirus treatment.

The researchers found non-contact transmission of the virus could be reduced by more than 60 percent when the masks were used.

After months of wearing masks to prevent virus infection risks, people can breathe freely outside without a mask in China's capital, Beijing, according to new guidance from the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control released on Sunday.

If you’re not careful, you can also contaminate your hands when you put on or take off gloves.

Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practiced in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday.

Europe and the United States have seen sharp surges in recent weeks of a severe immune disorder in children linked to COVID-19, health authorities reported Friday, sounding an alarm.

Used PPE is generally labelled as infectious or offensive, which means disposal needs to prevent the transmission of disease to the wider population.

New US research has found that a woman's genes may increase her risk of weight gain if she uses certain contraceptive implants.