Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an infection that affects your lungs, nose, throat, and breathing passages. You get it when infected droplets enter your nose, eyes, or mouth. This might happen ...

Most people get a bad cough during the winter and think it is “just bronchitis,” but sometimes it is pneumonia. Bronchitis is when the big tubes in ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is an ongoing group of lung conditions that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema. COPD is the result of damaged lung tissue, which leads to ...

Although they are similar, pneumonia often causes more severe symptoms than bronchitis. Rest and hydration treat bronchitis, while antibiotics treat bacterial pneumonia. Seeing a doctor is important ...

While utilization of recently developed clinical practice guidelines may permit a “cookbook” approach to prevention and treatment of pneumonia and bronchitis, many clinical decisions are not clear-cut ...

Few situations are more unsettling than not being able to breathe. Whether from a momentary injury that knocks the wind out of you, swimming underwater for too long or recovering after sprinting at ...