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A day out in a biting Canadian wind can leave your cheeks raw, your hands cracked and your lips split by the time you get home. Windburn and chapped skin...

Wildfire smoke contains fine particles and gases that can irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. Even healthy people may notice coughing or scratchiness, while asthma, heart disease, pregnancy and...

When the sun sets in the mid-afternoon and the cold settles in for months, a lot of Canadians feel their mood dip along with the daylight. Seasonal affective disorder, or...

As soon as the temperature drops, Canadian shelves fill up with Cold-FX and its ginseng-based promise to keep the winter bugs at bay. Plenty of people swear by it, but...

For an itchy, flaky patch of skin that will not quit, most people head to the pharmacy for a tube of Canesten. Clotrimazole is the standard clear-it-up cream, but it...

When a cough turns thick and rattly, a bottle of Robitussin is the familiar Canadian reach. The guaifenesin in it works to loosen chest mucus, but the syrupy taste, the...

A scratchy, raw throat sends most of us straight for a roll of Halls or a fiercely strong Fisherman's Friend to suck on. The menthol hit feels like it is...

When the aches, chills and stuffy head of a full-blown flu arrive, most Canadian medicine cabinets have a box of Tylenol Cold & Flu ready to go. The multi-symptom formula...

When a Canadian winter cold settles into your sinuses and your head feels like it is packed in cotton, there is a good chance you reach for Advil Cold &...

That stinging, prickly cluster of tiny bumps — bungang-araw, biang or plain old prickly heat — is a familiar summer complaint across the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia whenever the heat...

Year-round heat and sky-high humidity across the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia are hard on the skin — think shine by mid-morning, clogged pores and patches that never quite feel calm.If...

When the haze rolls in over Singapore, Malaysia and the wider region, the sky turns milky, the PSI creeps up, and scratchy throats and tired, run-down feelings seem to make...