In the small sanctuary of Starlight Bethel Missionary Church in South Dallas, emergency room physician Jeff Gusky stands before a handful of listeners. “It’s the humidity, stupid!” Dr. Gusky says. He ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk for upper respiratory infections in children with asthma went up when they were taught in classrooms ...

A new study has found a significant correlation between "absolute" humidity and influenza virus survival and transmission. When absolute humidity is low -- as in peak flu months of January and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower levels of indoor absolute humidity correlated with an increased risk for acute respiratory illness, or ARI ...

Industry leaders realized hundreds of years ago that their processes and machines operate best when the indoor relative humidity is maintained at an optimum level for their process. They found it was ...

Above: Registered nurse Claudina Prince administers a flu shot at a DeKalb County health center in Decatur, Ga., on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. Image credit: AP Photo/David Goldman. Folk wisdom has it that ...

It's a T-shirt kind of day in Washington, DC: 85 degrees with 63 percent humidity. We all know those numbers mean hot, but what exactly does that humidity percentage tell us? And why should we care?