Pneumonia causes more than a 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 ...

Each year, pneumonia is the most common cause of adult hospitalization behind childbirth. Vaccines can protect against up to 20 types of pneumococcal types of pneumonia. People from non-White ethnic ...

Dr. Oswald Theodore Avery, Manhattan researcher of the famed Rockefeller Institute, will get the first $1,500 John Phillips Memorial Prize* when the American College of Physicians meets in San ...

Here's what pneumonia is, what causes it and how the disease is usually treated once it has been diagnosed.

"Pneumonia isn't just like a bad cold, or sometimes people get it confused with a sinus infection or even bronchitis," explains Temple Health pulmonologist Michaela Seigo. Dr. Seigo says those ...

Does the patient have pneumonia or is the clinical picture due to some other problem? What is the microbial etiology of pneumonia? Where should the patient be treated? What is the best therapeutic ...

MRSA is a form of staph bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics typically used to treat bacterial infections. When an MRSA infection travels through the bloodstream, it can reach organs like ...

Dear Savvy Senior: I recently turned 65 and would like to know if I am supposed to get the pneumonia vaccine? And if so, which type of vaccine do I need, and is it covered by Medicare? — Relatively ...