Pneumonia symptoms in elderly patients can be very subtle. As a hospitalist, I admit several elderly patients with pneumonia every week. In my experience early diagnosis is the most important factor ...

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World Pneumonia Day highlights the rising threat of pneumonia, particularly in young children and the elderly. This ...

Here are the 7 early warning signs of pneumonia to watch for on World Pneumonia Day 2025 and protect your health before it worsens.

Post-festival smog and poor air quality significantly raise pneumonia risk, especially among children and the elderly.

World Pneumonia Day is observed to raise awareness about the respiratory infection, causes, risk factors, symptoms and ...

Pneumonia can be life-threatening, but the earliest symptoms often looks like nothing more than the common cold ...

The older the patient with pneumonia, the more likely resolution of radiographic infiltrates is to be delayed, especially if other comorbid illnesses are present. If both symptomatic and radiographic ...

Sticky fingers, runny noses: Little kids are sweet, but they can also pass on dangerous germs to loving grandparents, new research confirms. The study found that contact with pre-school and ...

Come winter, and there’s a rise in flus and lung diseases. Young people, who have a healthy immunity system, are still able to recover from these. But for the elderly, especially those above 60, flus ...

Pneumonia is an inflammation and/or infection of the lungs that is caused by bacteria, virus, or other foreign substance in the lungs. Because the air sac in your lungs can fill with fluid, oxygen ...

Amid a pneumonia outbreak among kids in Ohio, cases of the lung infection are rising nationally and other parts of the world — but it’s not unusual for this time of year in the U.S. and no reason to ...