Cold and flu viruses can live on surfaces for a few hours to days. Hard surfaces, like stainless steel and plastic, can keep ...

WASHINGTON -- Someone in your house have the sniffles? Watch out for the refrigerator door handle. The TV remote, too. A new study finds that cold sufferers often leave their germs there, where they ...

A bout with a cold or the flu can really take you down. To stay healthy, you need to avoid nasty bugs. But that’s not always easy. Germs are everywhere, and there are plenty of ideas about how to get ...