After an infection, cough hypersensitivity may develop thanks to inflamed airways and over-responsive cough receptors. Even minor irritants will then trigger the coughing reflex.

When analyzing cough sensitivity measurements among different populations, it is essential that the comparison be gender-specific, since the cough reflex is significantly more sensitive in women ...

Why won’t your cough go away? According to an article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, 11 to 25 per cent of adults are affected by coughs after an infection ...

After an infection, cough hypersensitivity may develop thanks to inflamed airways and over-responsive cough receptors. Even minor irritants will then trigger the coughing reflex.

A wet or “productive” cough means coughing up a lot of mucus. A cough can also be dry or “unproductive”. This happens when the cough receptors in the airways, throat and upper oesophagus have become ...

After an infection, cough hypersensitivity may develop thanks to inflamed airways and over-responsive cough receptors. Even minor irritants will then trigger the coughing reflex.

Bayer says its drug candidate for chronic cough – eliapixant – has hit the mark in a phase 2b trial, putting it in hot pursuit of Merck & Co's gefapixant, which was filed for approval in March ...

The parasympathetic nerves, primarily cholinergic, stimulate detrusor contraction and sphincter relaxation, resulting in bladder emptying.