Infections happen year-round, but peak whooping cough season lasts from late summer through fall. Pertussis is a cyclical disease, meaning it might spread widely through a community and then disappear ...
“The media have a lot to answer for,” said Polly Tommey, a senior Children’s Health Defense staff member on the panel. “I can’t imagine how many women, petrified hearing two girls had died ...
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The man who brought the sights and sounds of Jamaica to worldwide audiences 60 years ago has passed away "due to a seizure ...
The Gurugram health department on Tuesday launched the Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS) campaign, aimed at preventing pneumonia among children under the age of ...
Hammond says the film thrust him into the spotlight, which he admits was a big shock as a 14-year-old The actor, now 75, says very few people understand what it's like "to walk into the school ...
Pneumonia struck first. Then tonsillitis spiraled into sepsis. Malaria battered him next, and after treatment, the other illnesses flared back up again. This unvaccinated 2-year-old boy is trapped in ...
Penicillin V was as effective as amoxicillin for treating pneumonia in primary care, with similar rates of hospitalisation for lower respiratory tract infection or all-cause mortality within 28 days ...
Children of minority populations living in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods received significantly more antibiotics when hospitalized for pneumonia than non-Hispanic White children, based on data ...
The distinctive sound of your cough carries far more information than you might imagine, potentially serving as a powerful diagnostic tool that could revolutionize how pneumonia gets detected and ...
Each year, about 3,500 people swallow what are known as button batteries. Many of them are small children under the age of 5. They're shiny and tiny so kids just put it in their mouths and swallow ...