As childhood pneumonia outbreaks begin to crop up in regions around the U.S., an infectious diseases experts weighs in on possible causes and risks and presents key facts.

The overall death rate for pneumonia in the United States is 16.9 per 100,000 people, and that rate rises dramatically with age, to 27.9 for people from 65 to 74, 98.6 for people 75 to 84 and 414. ...

In the study, the researchers looked at data from 2007 to 2014 on around 4,800 patients at a Utah hospital who had been diagnosed with pneumonia and hospitalized. Around 80 percent of the patients ...

What is Pneumonia? Pneumonia is the #1 infectious cause of preventable child deaths, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 a year. Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that occurs when ...

Pneumonia Triggers Undiagnosed Heart Problem That Kills Newlywed, 32 Edward Burr died while waiting for a heart transplant, leaving his wife "a widow at 31,” she said By Cara Lynn Shultz ...

In the week of Nov. 13-19, there were 103 pneumonia cases out of every 100,000 children between the ages of 5 and 14 in the Netherlands. (iStock) ...

We know exercise is good, but a new study shows getting enough activity may help reduce the risk of death from influenza and pneumonia. But there is such a thing as too much exercise, the study ...

Pneumonia is a respiratory infection that affects the lungs, resulting in inflammation of the alveoli, the air sacs that make up the bulk of the lungs and help us breathe. Infection causes alveoli ...

Pneumonia discriminates. Pneumonia is a disease of poverty. 99% of child deaths from pneumonia occur in developing countries. Within these high burden countries, it is the poorest and most ...

There’s no indication “white lung” pneumonia outbreak in China originated in some nefarious research project there but there’s still plenty of reason to fear Beijing when it… ...