Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD There are several different kinds of pneumonia, but they all have one thing in ...

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who ...

Then there’s giardia, a parasite that often enters pools when people have accidents in the water or don’t rinse off properly.

The number of whooping cough cases in Japan this year has surpassed 50,000 for the first time since comparable data became ...

The bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease has been detected at the Veterans Affairs Loma Linda Healthcare System, prompting further testing of all pneumonia patients. The Legionella ...

Feb. 17, 2012 -- An 82-year-old Italian woman died after she contracted Legionnaires' disease, a severe, pneumonia-like illness, from the water in her dentist's office, according to a case report ...

An international team of scientists has discovered a genetic fragment on four continents that makes microbes resistant to an ...

LONDON (AP) — Vatican officials said late Tuesday that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff's recovery. The 88-year-old pope was hospitalized ...

FRANKFURT, May 26 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.S) said on Monday it would advance testing of an antibiotic against a common drug-resistant bacteria that causes serious hospital ...