The common lung infection can range from mild to life-threatening. Here’s how to recognize it and when to seek care.

UK pneumonia cases are increasing, with older adults most affected. Here’s what causes the illness, who is at risk and how it can be prevented.

Pneumonia and lung cancer present similar symptoms like cough and chest pain. Pneumonia is a rapid infection, while lung ...

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Pneumonia infects millions of people every year. Cases of this highly contagious lung infection surged across all age groups ...

Cases of "walking pneumonia" — a milder form of the lung infection pneumonia — have spiked in the United States, particularly among young children. Bacterial infections from Mycoplasma pneumoniae, one ...

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the health care system with more than 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and ...

Northwestern University scientists have potentially uncovered a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In a new ...

Beloved Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton died from pneumonia, according to a statement her family shared with People magazine. It was not clear if she had any underlying health conditions that ...

Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children in Kenya, with Kericho, Kisumu and West Pokot counties bearing the highest burden, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The disease ...