Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Respiratory infections among young children have been on the rise since the school year began in August, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the past six ...

Pneumonia is a common lung infection that can make breathing difficult and, in some cases, become life-threatening. It happens when the air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid or pus. Each year, about ...

Pediatric pneumonia outbreaks in Ohio and Massachusetts are not linked to respiratory illness upticks in China or elsewhere – and they’re not the result of a novel virus, health officials stressed ...

A type of pneumonia infection that’s increasing in the U.S. prompted a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is a type of bacteria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ARLINGTON, Va. − Infections of the bacteria that cause walking pneumonia, a lesser evil of the more serious illness of pneumonia, ...