Health officials in Ohio are warning about an increase in pneumonia cases in children. The state has seen 145 cases in kids aged 3 to 14 years old, and some are referring to the condition as “white ...

Pneumonia is a common lung infection that can make breathing difficult and, in some cases, become life-threatening. It happens when the air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid or pus. Each year, about ...

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 ...

A type of pneumonia infection that’s increasing in the U.S. prompted a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is a type of bacteria ...

Telling pneumonia and lung cancer apart can be difficult because both conditions target the lungs and often produce similar symptoms, such as persistent cough, chest pain, and fatigue. Despite these ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children ...