When it comes to terrible health advice, social media platform TikTok is the gift that keeps on giving. If eating papaya seeds to poop out parasites wasn’t enough, now users are jamming garlic cloves ...

Synthetic anion binders could one day help treat the chronic lung disease. A University at Buffalo-led research team has developed molecules that could help unclog thick, sticky mucus from the lungs ...

Snot might not be the first place you’d expect nanobots to be swimming around. But this slimy secretion exists in more places than just your nose and piles of dirty tissues — it also lines and helps ...

But what happens when the body produces too much mucus that is too thick, viscous and dehydrated to move and clear properly? Overly thick and sticky mucus over time can obstruct the airway, ...

Mucus is your body’s natural defence, but too much of it can make breathing feel like you’re inhaling through a wet sponge. Your lungs produce mucus every day to trap dust, germs, and irritants.

Sticky mucus may thwart alcohol-based hand sanitizers’ ability to fight the flu. Flu viruses encased in mucus drops from infected people’s spit can withstand the alcohol in hand sanitizers for more ...