Medically reviewed by Benjamin F. Asher, MD Key Takeaways Bronchitis infects the bronchial tubes, while pneumonia infects the alveoli.Bronchitis is usually viral and doesn't need antibiotics, but ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Key Takeaways Bronchitis can turn into pneumonia if the infection spreads in the respiratory tract.Most bronchitis cases are caused by viruses, so antibiotics won ...

There are steps physicians can take to prepare their patients with pulmonary issues for the changing of the seasons.

Several states are reporting an uptick in lung infections in young children caused by a common bacteria. In previous years, most pneumonia or acute bronchitis infections caused by M. pneumoniae were ...

Dr. Dylan Wyatt, an emergency medicine physician at Aspirus-St. Luke’s, shares the do’s and don’ts of antibiotics. Dr. Dylan: Antibiotics are medications that are used to treat bacterial infections.

Chronic cough in children, typically defined as a cough persisting for more than four weeks, remains a significant clinical concern with diverse aetiologies and potential long‐term sequelae. Often a ...

Wet cough over a period lasting longer than four weeks? We are supposed to believe that this is not unusual for children, nor anything to be worried about. But Dr. Anne Schlegtendal, senior physician ...

The activity, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, efficacy, safety, drug interactions, and dosage and administration of moxifloxacin are reviewed. Moxifloxacin is an oral 8-methoxyquinolone ...