Pneumonia symptoms can seem as mild as the flu, but they vary based on the cause and severity of the lung infection. Knowing the various signs and symptoms of pneumonia can help you seek early ...

Pneumonia strikes elderly adults with devastating frequency, claiming more lives among seniors than any other infectious disease. For grandparents and their families, recognizing the early warning ...

Pneumonia symptoms in elderly patients can be very subtle. As a hospitalist, I admit several elderly patients with pneumonia every week. In my experience early diagnosis is the most important factor ...

Seniors are generally at higher risk for complications and death from pneumonia due to weakened immune systems. However, risk factors vary from person to person. If you suspect your elderly loved one ...

It can be easy to shrug off a cough, especially during cold and flu season. Butwhen it’s accompanied by other respiratory symptoms and becomes increasingly severe or long lasting, it could signal a ...

Pneumonia causes more than 1 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 ...

The U.S. may or may not be headed for a “tripledemic” scenario like it saw last year—one in which three main pathogens drive up illnesses, hospitalizations, and general misery. The term "tripledemic" ...

Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 has been rampant among young children.

Cases of walking pneumonia are on the rise in northeastern Wisconsin. On Oct. 18, the state Department of Health Services issued a health alert noting the rise in pneumonia cases in young children.

It started with a cough that wouldn’t go away. Before she knew it, Karyne Jones was hospitalized with pneumonia in January 2018. Even after the bacteria cleared her body, it took her three months to ...

Amid a pneumonia outbreak among kids in Ohio, cases of the lung infection are rising nationally and other parts of the world — but it’s not unusual for this time of year in the U.S. and no reason to ...