Dear Dr. Roach: My husband had a nonstop coughing incident for a night and day after a feast, which landed him in the emergency room. He was found to have extremely low sodium levels (118-120 mEq/L), ...

Kate and Greg Moor weren’t thinking “whooping cough” when their son, 13-year-old Joe, started having coughing fits in early March. Joe probably just had a late winter virus, the Bloomfield Hills, ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases, I wanted to ...

A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in the United States this year. Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have surged to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according to the ...

As measles cases continue to crop up across the U.S., so too are cases of another highly contagious disease. Whooping cough, known clinically as pertussis, has caused the death of at least five, ...