Pfizer Inc. said a new version of its bestselling Prevnar vaccine may provide infants with better protection against common ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections have increased among all age groups since March. Children aged 2 to 4 years ...

The temperature is dropping, and rates of a whole host of respiratory illnesses are doing the opposite. Among them is so-called walking pneumonia, a relatively mild form of pneumonia that has been ...

Pneumonia in Newborn Babies: Pneumonia in newborn babies can cause breathing problems and fever. According to the WHO, millions of children die every year due to this disease. Pneumonia in Newborn ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — It's respiratory virus season, but Lehigh Valley Health Network doctors say one illness started in the summer way ahead of the typical trends. "At the very beginning, you don't ...

Cases of "walking pneumonia" — a milder form of the lung infection pneumonia — have spiked in the United States, particularly among young children. Bacterial infections from Mycoplasma pneumoniae, one ...

Every monsoon and winter, hospitals see a rise in babies struggling with severe cough, breathing trouble, or symptoms that seem like an upper respiratory tract infection or pneumonia. Many parents ...

As the weather gets colder and sneezes and sniffles become more common, it’s important for parents to be aware of the potential health risks. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Personal exposure to fine particulate matter with a diameter of ≤ 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) or carbon monoxide (CO) from biomass cooking showed no association with the risk for severe pneumonia in infants. A ...

The prevalence and risk factors for recurrent pneumonia differed between pediatric patients with recurrence in the same vs different areas, suggesting that data on the location of the recurrence may ...

Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children, based on evidence from a study performed in 73 Emergency Departments (EDs) in 14 ...