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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pneumonia is an infection that causes the air sacs in one or both lungs to fill with fluid or pus. Each year, more than 250,000 Americans are hospitalized with pneumonia, and about 50,000 die from the ...

The revelation that Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia has everyone frantically checking WebMD to figure out how serious it is. Should she have been working? Why didn't her campaign announce ...

A pneumococcal vaccine was effective at protecting children in Laos against the most severe type of pneumonia, a new study has found. A pneumococcal vaccine was effective at protecting children in ...