Pneumonia is a lung infection that annually impacts millions of people around the globe, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Walking pneumonia can masquerade as a common cold, but knowing these key symptoms and when to seek help could make all the ...

Pneumonia can also be fatal due to complications such as sepsis or lung abscesses. However, rarely do people die from pneumonia. Each year, around 1.4 million people in the United States go to the ...

Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...

Although infrequently seen in this setting, pneumonia constitutes a serious complication of pregnancy, and is the third most common cause of indirect obstetric death. All diseases in the pregnant ...

Only one patient in the series had a parapneumonic pleural effusion. When complications of pneumonia do develop in the pregnant patient, they usually are a consequence of delayed diagnosis.

The United States witnessed decade-high cases of whooping cough. More than 32,000 cases have been recorded this year, ...

Conner: Tell us about the new recommendations for the pneumonia vaccine.

N.Y. Since 2014 the CDC has recommended a pneumonia vaccine for everyone aged 65 or older, as well as for adults of any age who are at higher risk of complications from bacterial pneumonia because ...