Pneumonia strikes elderly adults with devastating frequency, claiming more lives among seniors than any other infectious disease. For grandparents and their families, recognizing the early warning ...

We learned at urgent care that there has been an uptick in pneumonia among young people this summer. Not good news, as the World Health Organization reports that pneumonia already is responsible for ...

Dr. Cassiere is Medical Director of the Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and Attending Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Physician, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Winthrop ...

Administering vitamin E supplements can significantly reduce pneumonia infection risk among elderly male smokers, according to a new study published in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging. To ...

Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 has been rampant among young children.

Andrea McLean has revealed she was rushed to hospital after collapsing in her home. The 55-year-old Loose Women star was diagnosed with severe pneumonia, acute kidney injury and sepsis, after ...

Childhood pneumonia cases have risen by more than 50%, according to NHS Digital data. The data, analysed by Unicef and Save the Children, found there were 56,210 emergency admissions in England for ...

A bacterial infection known as walking pneumonia is on the rise in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned. Cases are particularly high among young children.

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 ...