A large team of surgeons and organ transplant researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has found an association between lung transplant patients who become infected with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cases of a severe type of pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease have been on the rise in New York City's Harlem neighborhood ...

The warning signs of secondary bacterial pneumonia can vary with the severity of the bacterial infection. Here are the red ...

The incidence of infection by Mycobacterium abscessus is increasing in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other chronic pulmonary diseases, leading to an ...

Tuberculosis bacteria released into the air from infected individuals dry out to form infectious particles that are second only to measles in contagiousness. Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have ...

A new imaging tool that rapidly diagnoses bacterial lung infections could help prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics in intensive care units. The bedside technology can detect whether harmful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. However, around 20% to 30% of patients with nocardiosis have no known pre-existing conditions, so the infection doesn't ...

After lung transplantation, infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa independently predicted antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), researchers found. Through a series of mouse-model studies, the researchers ...

The symptoms of a bacterial infection will often depend on the location of the infection in the body. However, some common general symptoms include fever, fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes. Certain ...

New York Rangers star center Vincent Trocheck had a harrowing health scare early in the season. Trocheck, 32, revealed to reporters that his 14-game absence at the start of the season was due to a ...