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Principal researcher/writer at Which? delivering award-winning health, baby and safety investigations, including our annual sunscreen tests. With the cold weather drawing in, you might be thinking ...

What do you need to know about using a humidifier? As temperatures go down, so do moisture levels. While that’s not always bad, it can increase your chance of aggravating chronic respiratory issues, ...

"The [optimum humidity] for healthy skin and also nasal passages is about 40 per cent to 50 per cent," says Toronto dermatologist Dr. Sonya Cook. "In the wintertime in Canada, if you don't have a ...

With the warmer summer weather, and along with that an increase in hay fever symptoms for some, a humidifier is a worthwhile investment. And with the Prime Day sales about to begin, now is the perfect ...

For those of us whose skin in the winter gets as scaly as a lizard’s, home humidifiers might sound essential. But humidifiers are more complicated to use and care for than some other household ...

Winter in many parts of Canada is cold and dry and that means many reach for a humidifier to help with dry skin and breathing issues. But a new paper out of the University of Alberta shows using ...

Babies' lungs may not be handle particles released by some humidifiers that parents use to try to ease the misery of a child's cold or flu, pediatricians say. Writing in the journal Pediatrics, Ameet ...

At times like this, you may wonder if a humidifier could provide some relief. A humidifier for your baby could be the key to ...