Waking up with a spot on your lip is never a good feeling. Often cold sores or pimples are to blame, though telling the ...

Prescription and over-the-counter treatments can help a cold sore heal. Treating it early may also help it go away faster. Cold sores, or fever blisters, tend to develop on the lip or around the ...

"Both lip pimples and cold sores can pop up on the border of the lips, and a lip pimple can be mistaken for a cold sore," says Ko. However, cold sores, also known as oral herpes, are caused by the ...

Researchers have developed a new treatment formula—known as GS-1—that could reduce the symptoms and contagiousness of the ...

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The common cold sore virus, which is often caught in childhood, usually stays in the body for life – quietly dormant in the nerves. Now and then, things like stress, illness or injury can ...