GENEVA — The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrisome spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

China provided the World Health Organization with data on a pneumonia outbreak among children in the country after the agency made an unusual public request for the information—a gesture that renewed ...

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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 ...

GENEVA (AP) — Chinese officials say they did not detect any "unusual or novel diseases" in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health ...

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Northern China has had increases in influenza-like illnesses since mid-October that have topped the numbers from the prior three years. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) “Mysterious” and ...

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Hospitals’ electronic health records barely earn a passing grade for implementing clinical best practices in treating heart failure and pneumonia, according to an audit by Zynx Health in Los Angeles, ...

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