Although often independently classified, the diagnosis of pneumonia acquired in the community and pneumonia acquired in the hospital share many common features. Clinical suspicion should rest on a ...

It can be easy to shrug off a cough, especially during cold and flu season. Butwhen it’s accompanied by other respiratory symptoms and becomes increasingly severe or long lasting, it could signal a ...

IPF diagnosis relies on clinical evaluation, HRCT, and occasionally lung biopsy to identify usual interstitial pneumonia patterns. The average time to IPF diagnosis can be delayed up to two years due ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection that can lead to serious complications in children. The illness may present differently in children than it does in adults. Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs caused ...

The Queen has been urged to take more time to recover after a bout of pneumonia. At the start of November it was announced that Camilla had been diagnosed with a chest infection and was under doctors' ...

With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning of a recent increase in cases of "walking pneumonia" what are the symptoms to watch for? The CDC reported earlier this month that bacterial ...