Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elva Etienne/Getty Images Walking pneumonia infections rose nationwide as kids returned to school this fall. The infection can be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How pneumonia happens, infections that lead to pneumonia, and more. A lot of people think of pneumonia as a case of a cold gone ...

Cold and flu season is officially here and, unfortunately, it’s already looking like a doozy. In fact, cases of “walking pneumonia” have increased across the country, according to a new report from ...

Walking pneumonia is what it sounds like, a form of pneumonia so seemingly mild that people with the bacterial illness are often up and about—and inadvertently spreading germs. As the disease ...

Pneumonia is usually treated with antibiotics, but unfortunately these drugs are becoming less useful as bacteria develop resistance to them. Now, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ...

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.

Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often ...

Cases of "walking pneumonia" — a milder form of the lung infection pneumonia — have spiked in the United States, particularly among young children. Bacterial infections from Mycoplasma pneumoniae, one ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracing an upsurge of a bacteria linked to a recent rise in respiratory infections in young children, according a news release. Since late spring, CDC ...

Doctors have known that bacterial pneumonia can raise your risk of heart problems, but new research pinpoints why. The bacteria actually invade and kill heart cells, increasing the chances of heart ...

A bacterial outbreak at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle, Washington, has infected a total of 31 patients, according to a press release on the hospital’s website. Four of the 31 patients ...