In the midst of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in our region, a five-year-old girl with mild asthma presented to the emergency department of a children’s hospital in acute respiratory distress. She had an ...

Physicians in France confirmed a rare and fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia in a COVID-19 patient, according to research slated for publication in Emergency Infectious Diseases. The patient, a man ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Houston have discovered a toxin present in the bacteria responsible for the current nationwide outbreak of ...

E-cigarettes were initially thought to be a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, but a recent outbreak of serious lung illnesses and deaths linked to the nicotine delivery devices called that ...

Clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is responsible for an increasing number of pneumonia cases among ...

In our new weekly segment, 'Doc Talk', pediatric emergency doctor, Clint Pollack from Valley Children's Hospital is talking about Pneumonia in children and how parents should properly treat it once it ...

The Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a pore-forming toxin secreted by strains epidemiologically associated with the current outbreak of community-associated ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — As numerous reports of deaths related to flesh-eating bacteria continue to surface, a Tennessee man said he is a lucky survivor after a day on the river led to a softball ...

DECREASED resistance to infection has frequently been described in patients with Hodgkin's disease, 1 and therapeutic agents commonly used, such as corticosteroids, alkylating agents and x-rays, are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aspiration pneumonia is a common diagnosis among patients seen in and out of the hospital. Aspiration pneumonia ...