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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--As numerous reports of deaths related to flesh-eating bacteria continue to surface, a Middle Tennessee man is a lucky survivor after a day on the river led to a softball sized hole ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

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 ...