Walking pneumonia is joining whooping cough and RSV on the list of lung infections making children sick this fall. Children who have coughs that go on for weeks may have a type of walking pneumonia ...

Pneumonia is an infection that causes the air sacs in one or both lungs to fill with fluid or pus. Each year, more than 250,000 Americans are hospitalized with pneumonia, and about 50,000 die from the ...

Pneumonia causes more than a million hospitalizations and 50,000 deaths per year in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association. Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or ...

Antibiotics for pneumonia include Zithromax (azithromycin), Biaxin (clarithromycin), and Erythrocin (erythromycin). Azithromycin is often the first-line treatment since it is effective against many ...

Dr. Oswald Theodore Avery, Manhattan researcher of the famed Rockefeller Institute, will get the first $1,500 John Phillips Memorial Prize* when the American College of Physicians meets in San ...

Children who have coughs that go on for weeks may have a type of walking pneumonia that’s been surging in the U.S. this year, and they may need a different antibiotic regimen to treat it, infectious ...