It doesn’t always receive the same attention as the flu, COVID-19, RSV or measles, but pneumonia can be serious and even life ...

On World Pneumonia Day, Nov. 12, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), of which the American Thoracic Society is a founding member, is highlighting the urgent challenges in ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection that can be caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Symptoms of pneumonia include shortness of breath, fever, and cough. Here are the five major causes of pneumonia and ...

The older the patient with pneumonia, the more likely resolution of radiographic infiltrates is to be delayed, especially if other comorbid illnesses are present. If both symptomatic and radiographic ...

Telling pneumonia and lung cancer apart can be difficult because both conditions target the lungs and often produce similar symptoms, such as persistent cough, chest pain, and fatigue. Despite these ...

For the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th, pneumonia was a leading cause of death that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Sir William Osler – usually considered the ...

Walking pneumonia cases in the United States, especially among children, are on the rise and have been since early spring, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections from ...

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

From 1999 to 2023, the US age-adjusted adult death rate from influenza and pneumonia plummeted 29.2%, with the only ...