Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feeling run down but not "sick enough" to stay in bed? You might have a condition dubbed “walking pneumonia.” This mild yet ...

Pneumonia is an infection in one or both of the lungs. It’s most often caused by bacteria — specifically Streptococcus pneumoniae — but it can also be caused by a viral or fungal infection. Pneumonia ...

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 ...

Nabriva, a biotechnology company with U.S. headquarters in King of Prussia, just received FDA approval for a pneumonia-treating antibiotic. The agency approved oral and intravenous forms of Xenleta as ...

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) is a multidrug-resistant bacterium that can cause severe and life-threatening ...

A child with severe pneumonia can be treated with oral antibiotics as safely and effective at home as in hospital, says an article in The Lancet, this week’s issue. The authors say that the World ...

Azithromycin is often the first-line treatment for bacterial pneumonia. Amoxicillin is used for mild to moderate pneumonia for nonhospitalized people. Hospitalized adults may need different ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 20% of children diagnosed with pneumonia did not receive antibiotics. Treatment failure was slightly ...

A Hiroshima University study of more than 31,000 patients found that pneumonia occurred more often after breathing tubes were ...

Diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms are less common but possible if you have pneumonia, or are taking medications for this lung infection. Pneumonia is an infection that causes inflammation ...